Quotes About Creativity

I'm interested in films, in directing.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I love directing.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.

There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.

I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

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

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

Interestingly enough, there is a really different dynamic when you're directing something that somebody else has written compared to when you're directing something that you've written. And there's a good and a bad side to it. I think the bad side is that you never feel the same level of connection to the material - you just don't.

I think eventually I'd love to get into directing.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

'Room' is a very subtly-made film, and directing awards tend to go to the flashier stuff, but it's the Director's section of the academy that make the decision, so I'm very proud they can see something in what I directed and wanted to reward it.