Joey Soloway Quotes

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Every actor wants to direct.

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

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

I have immense admiration for the writer/directors and director/actors who just seamlessly do both jobs at the same time.

My approach to working in movies is to empower the director to have power over me and to really support his vision because he's the guy, at the end of the day, who's going to put it all together.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I've never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

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.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.