Jeff Nichols Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I make movies I want to see.

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

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

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

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

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

Eventually, it came to this place like, 'I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell.' 'Man of Tai Chi' became the story to tell.

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.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

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

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.