David Frankel Quotes

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

I started out as an assistant to a director on two movies, Miguel Arteta. The movies I worked on were 'Chuck and Buck' and 'The Good Girl.' I didn't even know I wanted to be a director until I started working with Miguel.

It's always exciting starting a new film.

I love direction. I met Roopesh Peethambaran and assisted him in his maiden venture, 'Theevram'.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

Years ago when I was at Fox, I was the executive on 'Raising Arizona.'

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I want to do feature films. I am flying to Malaysia to be in another feature film. We will be filming that in Malaysia, the Phillipines, and back in California.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.