Johnny Vegas Quotes

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

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I only make movies I want to go see.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

I can't tell you how freeing it is to have my own label. For the first time in my career, I have total control.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I want the subject to be in control. Because they will give me something I couldn't possibly know about them.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.