Heather Graham Quotes

I would love to write and direct.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

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

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.

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

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

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

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 you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

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.

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.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

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

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

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.