Cameron Monaghan Quotes

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

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.

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

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

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

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

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

Cameron Crowe can write dialogue and shoot it with warmth and humor like nobody else.