Chris Weitz Quotes

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped.

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

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.

I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

I don't quite know what an auteur is.

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

I think - in general, I don't think I've been involved in a single movie that turned out the way I anticipated it to turn out. Just because, as an actor, there's only so much that I can bring to a project.

I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

Movies require so many moving pieces to align that it really is a miracle that anything is made!