D. W. Griffith Quotes

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

I want to make my own movie.

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

Directing is a very, very difficult job.

My final ambition is to turn director.

I've always been passionate about directing.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.