Jordana Brewster Quotes

You either are a good director or you're not.

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.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

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

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.