Edge Quotes

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

You know, I remember watching Morgan Freeman when he did the two Alex Cross movies, and he's so confident that he's going to knock the scene dead. And I'm really confident that I can tell a good story now, so I just don't worry about things.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

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.

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.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

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.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

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 think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

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

If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day. I get up, go to my computer, write, turn it off, and go to bed. That is a Clarkson day.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

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.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

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.