Azazel Jacobs Quotes

United States, Film Director
January 1, 1972

Azazel Jacobs is an American film director and screenwriter, and the son of experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs. He attended Manhattan’s Bayard Rustin High School. His short films include Kirk and Kerry and Message Machine, and his features include the acclaimed Momma's Man and Terri.

Also known as Screenwriter

I just want to make different movies. I want them to be things that I care about and not to repeat myself.

Azazel Jacobs
- Care
- Movies
- Repeat
I am somebody who is fascinated with the theatrics of life, and how to represent those theatrics in a movie. For me, it's an honest way to express the fabrication that is in creating a film, the line that is drawn.

Azazel Jacobs

It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But I like the idea that I was able to tell a bunch of people's stories even though I didn't know them.

Azazel Jacobs
- Work
- Stories
- Connection
I'm one of those people that think that what you put up on screen, no matter how you're stating it, is usually an advertisement for it. Even if I'm saying "it's really bad to do this, or it's really good to do this" - regardless, the fact that it's on film, presented in this huge way, is appealing.

Azazel Jacobs
- Film
- Screen
- Put
I've done all the other kind of production work on films than directing really badly. That is the truth. It's made me a better director because I feel like directing is the only thing I can really do.

Azazel Jacobs