Michael Arden Quotes

I never thought I would direct a film.

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

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

Sometimes the nature of a big movie, the nature of the material, the scene doesn't have the richness that you'd want it to.

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.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

It is my passion to direct movies.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

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

I love directing.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I would like to direct.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.

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 directing, and I will direct myself a few times.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

With good content, a solid director can make a film without a superstar.

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