Eugenio Derbez Quotes

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a farmer checking in on all the plants being grown, pruning and adjusting. For me, it's a very exciting job.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

I don't make deals, I make pictures.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere.