Alexis Bledel Quotes

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

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.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

To become a hero is simple but to direct a film is far more challenging work.

Some of the actors who came to cinema much later than me have tried their hand at direction. But, I don't intend to wield megaphone anytime soon, since it is tough and requires a lot of your time.

I want to write, direct, produce, but in steps. I want to take steps. I don't want to just jump in because I sold a lot of records and just feel like I can jump into the movie world. Naw, I want to learn the movie world like I learned the music world.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

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

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don't have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I'm enthusiastic about.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.