Drew Barrymore Quotes

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

I love making movies.

Good films that get made are so few and far between. I want to write and direct more, but only so I can keep a fresh perspective.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

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

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

'Super 8' was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams, who I think is a kid in a grown man's body, which is a great ingredient for any artist in our business. You have to be a kid at heart to be able to make believe, and his imagination is phenomenal.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

I eventually want to write and direct and produce my own stuff.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.

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

In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas come, namely that part of ourselves that dreams. The unconscious is our best collaborator.

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.