Alfonso Ribeiro Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

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

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.