Leigh Whannell Quotes

I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers.

I enjoy selling my music. I don't enjoy selling myself.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.

We create constructs to understand ourselves, the way we look, how we feel, what we believe - and we telegraph that 'branding' to the world.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

For my web series 'Get Your Life,' I wrote that and produced it and starred in it so that I could have a body of work that represents my voice as a writer and as a performer.

The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

Yes, there's more access to film than when I first came into the league, but because of it there's a desire to see more and study more and cover more.

I prefer to be a director and a narrator rather than a writer.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

There's a funny thing that, in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I'm quite comfortable with that as a director. I don't mind that.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

I want to do films that provide entertainment, but are also content-driven.

Theater gives me that outlet of being a part of the process from beginning to end, while film is a little more compartmentalized and is more impulse-driven.

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

I think of all my movies as home movies! It's just that some are more expensive than others.

Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.

As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the journey of storytelling, I am an explorer.