Chandra Wilson Quotes

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

You can't really show people you can direct until you show them that you can direct.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

Directing is a tremendous art.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

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

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

I don't believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I'm thinking I'm going to make this film. I don't think about anything else.

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

Though all actors do not make good directors, Dhanush is really one of the finest. He knows exactly how to direct an actor to extract the performance the way he wants it. Perhaps that is happening because he is a performer himself.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.