Cuba Gooding Jr. Quotes

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

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

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

My dad, before he passed away, never understood what I did. What I say is that I'm responsible for translating the director's vision, hopefully turning an idea into something people can connect to and relate to.

It is the director's vision, and as actors, we are just extensions of that.

If you have a vision or if you believe the director has a vision, then at least you've got something to talk about, something to try and head to and I think that's mandatory for every director to have to do a good job.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

I love the entire process of being on the set and being able to create a character. It's so much fun. In 'Think Like a Man,' I have a very small part. They told me it wasn't a big budget, but I don't care about any of that. I'll do it for free simply because I love being on the set with other creative people.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.