Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.

Being a showrunner is doing a bit of everything. It's not just writing. It's also management: managing actors, managing producers, managing a crew, being kind to people, being a good boss, observing deadlines.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

I've been doing second unit for years, which is sort of like directing mini movies. Now that I'm directing entire films, it's really just more of everything. There are a lot more questions that need answers.

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.

As the director, it's just a constant stream of meetings where you meet with all of the creatives who make all of the decisions for every part of the episodes. You're also scouting for locations, deciding on the locations, meeting with your first associate director; mine was Jennifer Truelove. She's one of my favorite people on the planet.

Production is not an easy game and I would want to be prepared with the right team, script, etc before getting into it.

I have become a full-fledged producer. I spend a lot of time on pre-production work.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

I intend to do more directing TV.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.