Jeremy Piven Quotes

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

I want to make my own movie.

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 wanted to try directing.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

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'd love to direct more.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

That's the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it's the director's idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

Any movie's only as good as the director.

I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.