Stan Lee Quotes

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

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.

It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

Roles should choose an actor and not vice versa.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

Casting is a big deal.

Getting the right script that will work at the BO and relate to the audience is what matters. You also need a great director to bring the script to the screen in a form you envisioned it to be.

Finalising an actress is the job of the producer and director. It usually happens only after they are ready with a story.

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.

I want to have a great director, and also a great producer and co-stars. And there should be a tight script. After all, regardless of how the film turns out, I must have fun doing the film!

I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.

You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part.

My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting.