Keanu Reeves Quotes

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

A lot of directors in my experience are very receptive. They see what you do first, and then they want to find a place to put the camera, and they tweak you here and there.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

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

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a film. You have to take into consideration the nuances of the characters and what the actors bring to their roles.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.

I was always very interested in the storytelling decisions that went into directing. It just held this real allure for me. You know, if we're doing a scene at a dinner table, they weren't all shot the same. 'Why was the camera here for one moment and there for another?'

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

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.

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

It's great to have a good relationship with the directors and learn about things you do with cameras, and how you direct.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.