Jamie Foxx Quotes

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

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

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

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.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

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

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

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

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