Arne Glimcher Quotes

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.

I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

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.

I did theatre a lot when I was a kid. Then I went to acting school in New York. I did a lot of behind the scenes in college. I wanted to learn while I had the time. I studied theatre and film in different capacities.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

I'm at my happiest when I'm on a movie set. It's like therapy for me.

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.