Melissa Rosenberg Quotes

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

Well, you don't make any demands to Steven Spielberg.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.

I'd love to direct more.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

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.

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

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

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.

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

I want to make my own movie.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.