David Hare 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.

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

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

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

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

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

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

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

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.

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

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.

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is also going to direct, you're doing all your preparation: You're already visualizing everything, you're imagining how the lines are going to be read, you see the blocking in your head, and you know the rhythm and the pacing.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

I'd say that directing is in my heart. And that's where my focus is, like a laser beam. That's what I've been studying for a long time, and I think that everything that I've done before has contributed to the development of my craft as a director.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

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

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.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

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

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.