Barbra Streisand Quotes

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

Through writing, one experiences something different to what one experiences with the five senses one has because language is a different metier.

I enjoy acting, and I appreciate people who have passion about what they're doing and have a vision about the film they're trying to make.

Haseeb Hassan is a fantastic director. He really understands characters and their relationships. He always gives sound advice and direction.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

It's totally thrilling to direct.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I don't write about the same thing every time, everyday, different things are happening out there and if you take the time to look around, you can see that, then you can put it all together and tell the story.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

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

You know how when you read a book and it becomes a movie, and it's different than you pictured? In some ways, acting is a lot like that.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

For all of my class projects, I somehow turned it into a commercial parody or put on plays. My whole thing was seeing things from a big picture, from beginning to middle to end: making a costume, doing voices, writing a script, making it all happen.