Brad Dourif Quotes

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

In Europe and America, you never see a director pick up a camera. They all sit behind monitors.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

I'd really like to do a movie, either as a producer or director. My ultimate fantasy would be to direct a movie and produce the entire soundtrack. I don't really see myself acting.

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I wanted to do film. I was living in New York and working in theater, but I always wanted to do film.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I want to be when I grow up. I want to make films.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' And the reality is that it's not a whole lot different from what you do in live action.

Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as an actor and prepare a film as a director.

I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I've always wanted to direct.

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

My first love was always direction; I had worked hard as a film-maker but not as an actor.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music for a film is fascinating to me.