Top 1200 Directing Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

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

Acting is fun, but directing is very stressful.

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

Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Directing is like putting together a collage.

I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers', it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.

I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.

I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers,' it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.

I've produced, but as for directing, that's a dream that'll have to go unfulfilled.

I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

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

If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

Commercial Bengali movies are all crass imitation of Telugu and Tamil movies. There are only a handful of directors like Rituparno Ghosh, Aparna Sen and Gautam Ghose who make quality films.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.

I was frustrated. I was doing some bad movies, movies that I knew going in were not going to be great.

I know that when I'm writing, I always want to be directing.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

But I love the change and the variety directing brings.

I've done a lot of bad movies, but my bad horror movies are the ones that people still find the good stuff in.

I've always been passionate about directing.

I don't know why directing is not something I'm interested in.

Directing can be very lonely and quite intimidating.

I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

I do like directing other people's material.

The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.

It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

I say yes to a film depending on who is directing it.

Movies really have replaced what traditionally were mythologies, that every culture had their mythological beliefs and their collective 'stories.' There is now the possibility for movies to embody that arising new state of consciousness.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

My tone and my style are reflected in the movies I choose to make. I want to make big movies. My dream is to be Jon Favreau or Ben Affleck.

In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the opportunities available for mostly men. Those are the opportunities for a black actor to transcend 'black' movies. They have to play a black icon.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.

Directing a film is a lot of physical work.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

I don't know why everyone is making dance movies. I auditioned for three dance movies in the past two months and for one of them I just couldn't do it.

I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture.

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

Actually, I went from doing a lot of movies early on in my career, then to doing TV, and I don't know whether we'll get back to some movies or not.

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

Directing a film in Hindi is definitely on the cards.

I love really kitschy bad movies. Showgirls is one of my favorites. I saw House of Versace and died. I'm a big fan of made-for-TV movies because those are instant classics, naturally.

I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

There is a different kind of vulnerability when a woman is directing

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry. I've always felt whatever the opposite of disillusioned is. I guess illusioned with movies and with people in movies and things like that. It's all exciting to me.

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.