Jeff Fahey Quotes

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

My movies are not messed with by the studios.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

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

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.