Mel Gibson Quotes

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.

Directing comes closer than anything I’ve found yet to providing me with a good reason to get up in the morning that goes beyond just getting some money. Because all the money does is buy the bed. Getting out of it is the problem.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

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.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. Part of the freedom in directing, for me, is that I'm also the camera operator. That's the place where things are less rigid, where I can adjust as I go along.

I'm addicted to directing!

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.

The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

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 think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

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.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

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