John Francis Daley Quotes

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

When I think about my great conversations with Marlon Brando on the set of 'Morituri,' I think there's a story there, just as I do with my experience working with James Cameron on 'Titanic.' And then there are all my years on 'Y&R' and all that has happened there.

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

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

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.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

The literary aspect of the film business excites me, but show business in general doesn't take any mental giant.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

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

I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.