Wong Kar-wai Quotes

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

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

On a very small scale, I kind of understand why the directors that I work with do certain things. I don't consider myself an incredible director. I'm not ready to do movies by any means. But, I feel like I can be a better actress now that I've been on the other side and kind of understand the process and more of the technical aspects of it.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

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

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.

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 enjoy the details. I enjoy coming up with ideas for improving the script, changing scenes and deciding what locations and wardrobe should be - the process of making a film.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

I love good TV shows, but it's not what I do. I kind of sculpt my films as I go along. And TV is all about writing, so you just shoot, shoot, shoot what's written.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.

I do get very involved in making a scene work without giving too much thought about how it affects the overall, which I think is hard to know in any case.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.