Dave Franco Quotes

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

The rules are: The only ego is the film, and you have to serve the film.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I'm very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

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

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.