Jeff Bridges Quotes

One of the nice things about the world of filmmaking is that you make friends in the business. Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

It's a really unique situation where you just - you make independent films or you make big blockbuster movies, but it's very rare when all of those ingredients come together, and you can really tell a story that you care about with a character you absolutely love with the people you love making movies with.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and I'd love to work with him again.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar for 'The Fighter,' and who also wrote '8 Mile,' which I think is a terrific screenplay. The chance to work with Scott is a tremendous pleasure and I'm learning a lot.

I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

I love bouncing my words off of someone else's, and the fact that writing a story with someone else guarantees you'll get something you never, ever would have written on your own.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

I see my actors as my collaborators.