Steve Guttenberg Quotes

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I'm seeing a whole scene come to life.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

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

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

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

I think I would like directing. I really like coming at the work that way.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.

I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

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

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

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.

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.