Thomas Schlamme Quotes

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I was working in commercials and music videos, always with the goal of working in feature films.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I like the opportunity to make films.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.

I want to go wherever there's great work. I'm a huge fan of film primarily. But you can get a great TV show and get attached to it. Making a great film is forever, though, so I always want to be part of film. It's my first love.

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos.

When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

'Iron Man 3' was very educational. There's a train that starts moving which already has so many moving parts, and it's a constant process of animatics and storyboards and consulting meetings, and it's a very mechanical process once the script is written. It's sprawling, and they're throwing money at it to get these things accomplished.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

I want 'Like Brothers' to answer young kids who ask, 'How could I possibly become a filmmaker?' This book will step that out for you.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.

I make my living by shooting ad-films, and, in fact, that's how I began my career.

I fell in love with films only two years after working in films.

I'm in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.

Pooja Bhatt is a very good director.