Quotes About Filmmaking

When you make shorts, people don't get paid. It's mostly about being diplomatic that you're going to do a masterpiece of short cinema.

I only direct in self-defense.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I don't direct movies for a living.

It is my passion to direct movies.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

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.'

I had directed some tele films years ago.

For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can conceive stories, write screenplays, etc. That's better for me.

Directing adults is not the same kind of collaboration as you have with a teenager or kid.

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

I do like directing other people's material.

I don't think I'm great at acting. I think I'm great at directing.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

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

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