Eugenio Derbez Quotes

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

When you first start out, you want to be Fellini, or you want to be Bergman.

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

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.

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.'

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

It'd be fun to do a comedy with someone like Sandra Bullock.

I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I feel like if you feel good about a script, and you feel confident about your ability to direct and just capture it right, it's all just, really, really in your favor there.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.

I would love to work with Christopher Nolan, 100 percent.

I would love to go off and do a movie with Judd Apatow or do another 'Mean Girls,' but to me, it's whatever the story is.

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

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

I never really saw myself as a comedy director, and I still don't. I see myself as a director.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

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

I can't describe how I make a film. It's organic.