Greg Cipes Quotes

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I always loved the creative process, from 'Shakespeare in Love' to 'Finding Neverland' to 'Basquiat'; whether it's serious, or it's comedic, whether it's the 'inside look' at that, it seems to be a theme of what I do.

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

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.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

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

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.