Jason Patric Quotes

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

I don't make films for critics, and I'm not particularly interested in what they have to say, and they don't have a bearing on my audiences.

I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

I've made movies where I was not happy, and I'd rather not work for a year than do a bad film. It takes a long time for me to recuperate when I do that.

The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole.

I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

I think of myself as making independent films within the studio system. Yes, I've made movies with significantly larger budgets, and I've also made movies with smaller budgets.

If a film becomes successful, the actor is blamed for being commercial and not having a true love for movies. When we do serious films, we will be blamed for not planning our career properly. I believe that what one should do is to make good cinema and try to make it successful.

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

I just don't want to do films for the sake of it.

My focus stays on doing good films with notable characters.

Everybody, and that includes an actor, wants to go to work everyday. That said, it's better to sit at home than do a bad film. That can harm your career more than not having a release!

I would like to balance my career, do meaningful cinema and also do fluff films.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

I like to produce my own movies.

The only reason I came to L.A. in the first place was to tell stories and make movies. Whatever way you can do that - if you can do that - at whatever level, that's rewarding.

Good films will happen only if there are people to produce good films and there are people to encourage the endeavour.