Brie Larson Quotes

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

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

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

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

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.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

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.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.

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've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

I'd love to direct more.

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

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.