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There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

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.

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.