Harold Ramis Quotes

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

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

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

I really have very little aspirations about acting because I think that probably the best things have come and gone. I would like to focus on writing and directing. I love writing and directing even though writing can be incredibly painful and lonely. I get great satisfaction from doing it.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

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

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

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.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

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

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

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.

There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

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.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

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

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

I would love to write and direct.

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