Dave Franco Quotes

I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

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.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.

Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

In cinema, I would not really rate my costar and I would not pick a project because of the costar. I would pick a project because of the director. And the script.

I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.

I mean I met James Wan at film school. That's where we met. I didn't go to film school to find someone else to work with. I was thinking I would go and learn to direct and go and be a director like everyone else at school.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.

I'm always looking for other interesting films to either act in or direct.

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.

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

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and I'd love to work with him again.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms, he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

I depend on good editors and a good director.