Preston Sturges Quotes

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

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

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I think with any movie, directing is more in the preparation. You just have to prepare for everything that's going to happen.

Movies are made in the scriptwriting process and prepping and preparations for the shooting process.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

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 really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.