Jennifer Yuh Nelson Quotes

It is a challenge to direct any film.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

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.

I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

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.

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

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

I would love to produce a film.

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

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

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

One day, I want to make a PG film.

I always wanted to make movies.

I love making movies.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

As a second unit director, you're entrusted to shoot the action sequences. On every movie, it's slightly different.

Directing is literally what I've always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid. So I love the career I've built behind the camera.

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.