Kathy Bates Quotes

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

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

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.

I would love to work with Quentin Tarantino - he's my number one. My ultimate. I would love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne - Pedro Almodovar wouldn't be too shabby. There are so many good directors, but those are some of my favorites.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

As a director, you want to work with great writers.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

I would love to do a commercial film. But my hero is the script.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.