Keri Russell Quotes

Any movie's only as good as the director.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

Yes, I do bring something of my own to the plate. But I strongly believe that a film is a director and writer's vision.

There's a funny thing that, in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I'm quite comfortable with that as a director. I don't mind that.

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film.

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

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

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'