Gary Hume Quotes

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.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

I like writing for movies. It's nice to be alone working on fiction in your room, and then it's nice to be in a room with a bunch of people working on a movie.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

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.

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

I finished 'Hell or High Water' and started writing 'Wind River' literally the next day.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.