Joshua Michael Stern Quotes

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just got work as a writer. I want to keep directing.

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.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.