Bobby Farrelly Quotes

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

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.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

I've always wanted to be a director; it's just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I'm seeing a whole scene come to life.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

As a director, I start with the visual.

Directing is a tremendous art.

I don't like to dwell all day over one scene as you do in a big feature.

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

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.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.

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.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

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.

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

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I don't study films particularly. I plan to direct, but I'm not watching film - I watch the entire film to see how the story goes, but I don't say, 'Oh, so he does a slow pan here, or he pulls here, watch the crane shot, or look at the composition,' because it's got to be my eye.