Joel David Moore Quotes

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

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

I like psychological thrillers but when it's demonic, there's no uplifting message.

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

I love the idea of directing, I'm not confident enough, but I'm more confident in, well, I'd love to write. I've sort of written my whole life and I think I have a knack for it, so I'd like to write something and see what people think and that would be my first step to directing.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

I'm so damn boring. I like reading and writing and making coffee. And walking. Barry Jenkins likes long walks.

When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect of filmmaking and that is what I enjoy the most.

The thing that interested me, there are so many filmmakers I admire - like David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino - they have these themes where there's not much going on, but they were suspenseful.

I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.

I love to watch entertaining films with larger than life characters and hence enjoy making such kind of movies.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

If I'm intimidated, I shouldn't be directing a movie. I gotta treat 'em as characters, not as stars. It's hard to not treat Marlon Brando as a legend, a star, it's difficult not to treat Robert De Niro as a star, but that had to go away very fast after I knew them, because I had to work with them. I'm the director, I'm the boss. They're looking to me for guidance.

[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.