Richard E. Grant Quotes

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

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 want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.

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

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

I love directing.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

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

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.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

I've always wanted to be behind the camera in some capacity.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

I've never been given an opportunity to direct, but man, I would love to try my hand at that.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

I've always been passionate about directing.

I wanted to try directing.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

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

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.