Jihae Quotes

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

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've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

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

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

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

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

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

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

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

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

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.