Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Carr

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American director Steve Carr.

Last updated on April 19, 2025.

Steven Harold Carr is an American film director, music video director, and film producer from Brooklyn, New York. After studying fine arts on a full scholarship to Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, Carr founded design firm The Drawing Board with Cey Adam to create iconic album artwork for Def Jam Recordings artists such as Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, LL Cool J and more. Asked to take his vision to film, Carr created groundbreaking videos for influential hip-hop artists from Slick Rick to Jay-Z, and was signed to Quentin Tarantino's A Band Apart Music Video production company in Los Angeles, CA.

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I wanted to do something raw and raucous and R-rated. But then 'Middle School: the Worst Years of My Life' came to me. One reason I took this movie on is because I saw it as a really great opportunity to revisit my own past through this character.

Steve Carr

I remember when 'Daddy Day Care' came out, I saw fathers and their sons and daughters walking out of the theater and talking about the movie. That's the neatest thing.

Steve Carr

There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.

Steve Carr

I always felt a little bit on the outside.

Steve Carr

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

Steve Carr

I've done hip-hop videos, family comedies, a quirky comedy.

Steve Carr

There are a lot of action movies with very little comedy.

Steve Carr

I express myself through my art.

Steve Carr

I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'

Steve Carr

'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.

Steve Carr

My sketchbook became everything to me.

Steve Carr

I've worked on a set before, know something about cameras, and done some editing.

Steve Carr

It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.

Steve Carr

Mine has been a pretty strange path.

Steve Carr

One of the important things to look at is kids who aren't cheerleaders or aren't the student-body presidents. In 'Daddy Day Care,' one of the kids would only communicate in Klingon. I get that kind of a kid.

Steve Carr

What I've always loved are movies like 'When Harry Met Sally'... and 'The Sure Thing.'

Steve Carr

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Carr

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