Ruben Fleischer Quotes

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I don't direct movies for a living.

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.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

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

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

Making a movie, under any circumstances, is a highly stressful occupation.

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

I think eventually I'd love to get into directing.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

My dream role is actually behind the camera. I want to direct.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.

I've always been interested in directing, writing, and producing, so when I went behind the scenes, it was like a whole new world that I got to experience.

On returning to India I took up a short assignment as assistant to the secretary of jury at the International Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray was the chairman. He was on the lookout for an assistant, and that's how I went to Kolkata. I learnt a lot - the discipline, conceptualization, planning your shots.

It takes two years to make a good film.

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 hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

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.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

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

I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.