Wong Kar-wai Quotes

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

Directing is a tremendous art.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

I am inspired just by the way a scene can be interpreted by the actors. It can make a huge difference on the type of music that you write. It's best for me if I don't work at all on a project until the movie is shot and I have some sort of edit in front of me.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

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

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

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

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

I feel like if you feel good about a script, and you feel confident about your ability to direct and just capture it right, it's all just, really, really in your favor there.