Alexis Bledel Quotes

I prefer working behind the camera.

My entire career has been behind the camera, and that's definitely where I'm most comfortable.

I want to do more work behind the camera.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.

My dream role is actually behind the camera. I want to direct.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it's just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

It is my passion to direct movies.

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

If you want to direct, you've got to work.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.