Channing Tatum Quotes

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

I would love to try my hand at directing and even producing in some kind of way. Something about that intrigues me, but for directing I could completely see myself trying.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

I'd say that directing is in my heart. And that's where my focus is, like a laser beam. That's what I've been studying for a long time, and I think that everything that I've done before has contributed to the development of my craft as a director.

I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.".

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.