Mark Strong Quotes

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

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

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

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

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur.

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is also going to direct, you're doing all your preparation: You're already visualizing everything, you're imagining how the lines are going to be read, you see the blocking in your head, and you know the rhythm and the pacing.

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

I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

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've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

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.

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

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.