Fred Savage Quotes

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

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

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

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.

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

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I was very happy when I was doing my first two films: 'Student No.1', 'Simhadri'. I had absolutely no doubts - I would just place my camera at one point and say, 'That is the right way.'

The first movies were made by technicians building their own cameras. Movies became an art when technicians worked on the technique and artists took care of the content.

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.