John C. Reilly Quotes

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.

Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.

I think directing is something I would really enjoy.

I wanted to try directing.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.

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

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

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

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get.

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.