Brian Gleeson Quotes

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

It took 17 years to get 'Rambling Rose' made from the time Calder Willingham wrote the script adapted from his novel. Ed Scherick, the producer, was interested in it. Martha Coolidge was interested in directing it.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

I know I'd like to direct a film at some point, and maybe I'll write it.

If an actor is going to be an action hero, do it in a Robert Rodriguez movie, because that guy is going to make you look like a million bucks.

'The Homesman' is my third collaboration with Tommy Lee Jones as director, and each time, I am aware of how fortunate I am.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'

I always wanted to make movies.

Warren Beatty is a great director. I wish Warren would direct another film right now, because I'd love to do another film with Warren. I think that 'Dick Tracy' is an outstanding film in its own right.

Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' - actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I want to be when I grow up. I want to make films.

I could not do Satyajit Ray's 'Kanchenjunga' because I had already committed the daters he wanted to shoot on to other producers.

I didn't know anybody who was a filmmaker - there was no film industry where I grew up. I never knew what a director really did until I was in high school and I started reading up about it. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller.