Katie Holmes Quotes

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I've written something and I would like to have my first film directed by the time I'm 30.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

I wonder if Louis Ferreira would be interested in directing.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

I met Robert Rodriguez working on a movie called 'Roadracers.'

Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

I don't direct movies for a living.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

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 wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

When How Green Was My Valley finally wrapped, I thought John Ford was a walking god.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.