Alfonso Ribeiro Quotes

When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect of filmmaking and that is what I enjoy the most.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

Directing is a tremendous art.

I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.

As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.

Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

In a nutshell, directing 'The Gift' was all about understanding how the complex machine that is 'Game of Thrones' works.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

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

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.