14 Quotes by Robert Schwentke

I have a family. I'm married. I'm very, very happy.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you have to really churn them out which I think probably helps you develop certain muscles. I'm not sure though that you really want to have those muscles as a director.

The movie doesn't do what you want it do. It just grows and then you have a movie at the end of it, hopefully.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.

I have a family. I'm married. I'm very, very happy. I wanted to make a movie for my wife and a movie that speaks to what it is to be in a long term, very, very committed relationship because at the heart that's really what it is.

I'm very eclectic in terms of what I like, what I read, what I watch, my own consumer behavior.

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.