If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it.
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
I want to do some bigger films, so long as there's some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind them.
You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.
As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!
At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
It didn't get into Sundance although I showed a rough cut which is a mistake to all filmmakers out there.
I was a film student. I became an actor, but I thought I'd be pursuing filmmaking originally.
