DanTDM Quotes

I started making my own short films as a way of being able to give myself something to do and to study my craft.

So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

In some ways, I'm just a visual person.

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

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 do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

Film is very condensed.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

Film, I think, is my medium.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I'd love to direct more.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.