Michael B. Jordan Quotes

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.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

I think I am more liberated as an artiste in my late 40s.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

I do want to take some time and reinvent and get better and maybe get behind the camera a little more. I do want to direct at some point and start failing really early - start shooting videos and then commercials and then hopefully do some narrative.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

I feel like directing is an innate talent.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record.

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.