Luke Evans Quotes

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

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

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

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.

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.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

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

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

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

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

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.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

I love taking on roles that other people have written for me just as much as I take on writing - just not as much of a, 'Oh, that guy.' I want people to start saying, 'Oh, Brett Gelman's new piece is coming out. That's a Brett Gelman movie. That's a a Brett Gelman show.'

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.