Quotes About Creative

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

I spent a long time on my first movie, which was the sequel to a short film that I did called 'Carne.' And I had no money. I shot it over a period of three years, a bit like David Lynch directed 'Eraserhead.'

Well, I'm directing a lot of television these days.

Choreography is amazing. I'm still a dancer, yet I transitioned into choreography then as a Creative Director. All of these creative elements are brought out of being a dancer. Directing is something that comes out of understanding movement and choreography. Directing movement is directing a dance piece.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

I need creative satisfaction and only then I can move in as a director.

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for five or six years, and then when it's canceled, they can't break out on their own.

Television is certainly a writers-led medium. They're the ones who are there, they're the ones that are conferencing or whatever, with directors coming and going.

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

If you want to be an entertainer, then go be an entertainer and give people what they want. If you want to be an artist, then you have to be true to yourself, and you have to be prepared to confront expectations - and you have to be prepared to disappoint your fans, too.

In every writers' room I've been in, the first 15-20 minutes of the day are spent discussing water cooler moments from last night's big shows.

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.