Billy Eichner Quotes

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

Directing takes a lot of time.

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the one on the hook.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I had done it all in my career. I always felt, as a kid, that that's what a director needed to be. Hitchcock could do anything in my mind. He's the director. That person has to be the best actor, the best designer, the best cinematographer. Then I came to realize that isn't the case. You just need to surround yourself with the best.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

I love working with Darren Lynn Bousman. He is such a cool director with really great ideas.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

It's great, getting the scripts and working with somebody like Sam Esmail, who is such a great leader.

As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.