Stan Lee Quotes

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone else to make the end product essentially. My scripts are just directions for the artist to draw pages and the pages are what is seen. I kind of feel like it's a safety net, you're able to hide behind the art to a certain extent, and in television you're able to hide behind the actors and the production, but with novels, your words are it

My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

The longer I've been writing scripts, the more I find that you have to give the artist more leeway or else you'll just be disappointed. You can't force them to draw every image that's in your head. Since I'm a horrific artist, I wouldn't want them to anyway. So I definitely give them a lot more leeway now than I did at the beginning.

I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do more of. I would really be interested in doing something in that vein, writing something for myself or someone else and directing for sure.

I keep trying to train myself to stop saying 'filmmaker' and start saying 'storyteller.' We're telling stories.

I love movies, I love television and I know that the kind of stuff I love to watch and that's what I want to do.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

It might be thematic work. It might be theatrical. I enjoy that kind of work.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.