Film Quotes by Mike Birbiglia

'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

— Mike Birbiglia

Film is so immersive.

— Mike Birbiglia

People are making better and better small budge independent films these days.

— Mike Birbiglia

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

— Mike Birbiglia

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

— Mike Birbiglia

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

— Mike Birbiglia

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

— Mike Birbiglia

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are…

— Mike Birbiglia

One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.

— Mike Birbiglia

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

— Mike Birbiglia

I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

— Mike Birbiglia

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing…

— Mike Birbiglia

I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody.

— Mike Birbiglia

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

— Mike Birbiglia

I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far…

— Mike Birbiglia

In my twenties, I thought it was getting a sitcom. Then I got a sitcom pilot in my early thirties, and realized…

— Mike Birbiglia

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet…

— Mike Birbiglia

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You…

— Mike Birbiglia

I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and…

— Mike Birbiglia

Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I…

— Mike Birbiglia

The thing with film is that it's so wide-reaching compared to comedy. When I release my comedy special, half a million people…

— Mike Birbiglia

I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my…

— Mike Birbiglia

When I wrote the screenplay for 'Sleepwalk with Me,' I was imagining that another person would direct it. So I was using…

— Mike Birbiglia

I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings…

— Mike Birbiglia

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an…

— Mike Birbiglia