Dave Franco Quotes

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.

A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of the way and support the director one hundred percent.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

I believe in the theory that one cannot make a good film; it just happens.

No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.