Beatrice Dalle Quotes

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

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

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen.

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

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

A producer friend of mine from film school had read some of my early screenplays - some experiments I had done to see how fast I could write something.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

I'm pursuing film and TV, and it's exciting because I feel I can write in almost any genre now.

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.

I just want to work on good scripts.

I'm a director's actor, and I surrender myself to the vision and the process. I think nothing else matters then.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

It's a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don't exactly know how they're going to turn out.

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.