Christopher Egan Quotes

Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

Our responsibility as filmmakers is to make things that are fresh, unique and original.

I'm just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I'm around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

I want to work with anybody original.

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

In the age of mediocrity and clones, John Stowell's uniqueness and originality are a breath of fresh air. I love playing with him.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

No man was ever great by imitation.

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.