Jackie Earle Haley Quotes

I saw the finished version of 'The French Dispatch' quite a while ago, and it's just amazing. It's so incredibly strong and different... the way that Wes is expanding his talents to another dimension with each film is just wow.

From an art perspective, I don't know how you get better than 'Beetlejuice.' In terms of originality and a look, it's 100% unique.

I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.

I want to be in a Tim Burton movie so bad.

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.

Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.

I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

It's kind of the filmmaker's job to use visual, cinematic language in a way possible to tell a story that reaches and touches as many people as possible.

Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine.

The people I met for the first time in the period when I was making films like 'Tum Bin,' 'Ra.One,' 'Dus,' 'Cash' would often remark that I was very unlike the person who had made those films. This is not the best thing for a film-maker to hear because your film should reflect your personality, thinking, philosophy and character.

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.