Cheryl Hines Quotes

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

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.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

I got a lot of energy from directing the film 'Ladies In Lavender.' You wonder if you have the stamina because as an actor you can lounge around the trailer during the scenes you're not in, but as a director, you're there from first thing in the morning to last thing at night every day of the week. I found it incredibly energising.

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

We make a lot of movies, and we make them fast.

I feel filmmaking is not an easy task. People make films but sometimes they are not able to release it.

Every aspect of filmmaking has lured me. Although I'm an actor now, one day, I'd like to direct a film. It's not as though I'm all set to take the plunge; I cherish this dream of calling the shots, but only after I groom myself with the right kind of preparation and the technical know-how.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

All I know is movies; I went to school, but movies are my reference point for everything. I figured I'd have to P.A. or intern in the art department. Because the filmmaking process is so many people creating to make one piece of magic, so I've always wanted to be involved. With the acting, I doubted it.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

Nothing has changed that much, even during filmmaking for 'The Descendants.' I wrote. I took the kids to school. I cleaned the house. And I had dinner with George Clooney.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.