Lil Rel Howery Quotes

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

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.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

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.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

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

I do like directing other people's material.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

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

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, 'I might read a script and love it, but it's all about the filmmaker.' I think that's a good lesson for me.

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.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.