Cameron Monaghan Quotes

I love directing. I love creating things that I don't necessarily even have to be in. I like creating worlds. So I'm getting into writing movies and selling movies and television shows and creating worlds that then get to live beyond me.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me.

I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something.

I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

I could name you a dozen superheroes whose powers I'd like to have. But if I could have any power in the world, it would be the power to read or watch a creative work and absorb the technical skill of the people who made it. Because then I could have even more fun writing. That's my core identity. I'm a writer. I just love telling stories.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

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've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. My own material.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

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

I wanted to become a director before I wanted to become a writer. When I was 10, people would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said, 'Walt Disney.' I wanted to make films. But I wasn't offered a camera. I was offered language. So I started telling stories in the theatre and then in my novels.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

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.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

One thing I can say right off the bat is that creating great editorial is a huge challenge, and you can't help but go through the process and not appreciate how valuable this skill is, and how much I admire the people who do this every day.