Garry Marshall Quotes

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even a child. I wrote my first play when I was, like, seven years old. That was me - a writer - for years.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.

I'm a writer. I'm not an actress.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I love film and TV, the medium of them, just because it's such a smaller screen. It's much more precise. Ideally, I'd like to do maybe a film a year of some sort and use that to work more in the theatre because theatre really is my first love.

When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.

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

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.