Jimmy O. Yang Quotes

I like drama. My first movie that I did, 'Soul Survivors', was a drama, and I'm just drawn to that; that's sort of my forte.

The reason I loved doing films like 'Rogue One,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'Lion' was that there was enough breadth and difference in those projects to properly represent my interests.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

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.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

I want to do action, romantic comedy, and I love drama.

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

Initially, I got into the business to do drama. I never really thought I would be doing sci-fi films.

The quality of television is becoming so good from an actor standpoint, where you get to do these amazing scenes with amazing directors and cinematography.

I would say movies all have their own world or reality they're built in.

Generally, drama films are made with stars - I broke the rule unknowingly.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

The first time that I saw people actually make the thing that I wrote was my first episode of 'Six Feet Under.' It was called 'Back To The Garden.'

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.