Joel McHale Quotes

I always wanted to direct. Directing is a lot more of a commitment though, a lot more time. I like directors who do very few takes, they know what they want.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that.

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

I love working with Bob Zemeckis. I think he's amazing and wonderful to work with.

M. Night Shyamalan can draw quite a few people to quite a few things, and having the opportunity to work with him is very cool.

One thing which no one knows about me is I could be very good director. Although I have not directed any movie so far but I am sure the day I start it, I would be very good at it.

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

I started working with James [Schamus] early on, and my role as an executive producer was more about being involved in the conversations of putting the film together. I didn't have to do much work because James is the most experienced first-time director you could imagine.

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you, "Do it like this. Don't do it like that."

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

If you read a part that you want to play, and you already know you have actors you want to work with but it's not on the page, it's not going to be on the screen. So that is the most difficult thing to do for a producer, is to get a script that attracts this kind of talent.

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain set of tools. But I would listen to the director.

I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at this price. I knew it was going to be big. I knew there was going to be a ship involved and that there was going to be a set as big as the ship. I thought, well, here we go. But I knew that was where he was headed. He had been going this way for some time. All directors, once they have some success, they want to spend a whole heck of a lot of money. (Something else can't hear.)

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

I thought ['Sailcloth'] was a terrific script. Elfar Adalsteins, the director, is bound to be a director we'll hear from, and the whole thing was really enjoyable.