Art Quote by Robert Longo

I wanted to make films since I was young. My background had nothing to do with anything creative, so it seemed an impossible task.

— Andrew Haigh

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

— Rick Moranis

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted…

— Mira Nair

I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another,…

— Paul Smith

Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three…

— Dennis Cooper

I think of my body of work as a story that flows and plays in my mind like a film.

— Giveon

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be…

— Maya Lin

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

— Abhay Deol

I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was…

— Michelle Rodriguez

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody,…

— Mira Nair

I always wanted to make movies no matter what. It's true. No matter how I was getting to do it, that's what I wanted…

— Amy Pascal

I was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the…

— Lee Isaac Chung