Joseph Morgan Quotes

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

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

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

I wanted to try directing.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

I love directing.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

I had no idea, really, on my first film what I was doing.

Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.