Dustin Lance Black Quotes

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

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.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

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

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

To be an actor, you have to be self-obsessed, but when you are a filmmaker, you get a macro view. Every aspect of making the film is under your purview. And for me, that is a bigger turn-on than just being an actress.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'