David Nicholls Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? I had a blast, and the film is a very, very well put together movie - from the director to the writing the cast.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

In a film there a lot of people scheduling, you know.

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

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

I like to make movies I like to watch.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

I would love to produce a film.

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

I think films are bigger than structure.