Ryan Higa Quotes

I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.

I didn't have a normal academic career. I never studied cinema. I learned from life.

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.

I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.

The fact that I am not formally trained never really bothered me. There were times I knew it could have been a brownie point, had I been trained, but it never pulled me back.

I never really learnt from anyone. I just spent a lot of time at home, knocking things out. It has been interesting going into proper studios, working with people who know everything. But I find it doesn't hinder me.

I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

It would be a great vacation to act in a movie if I weren't directing it. But to do it while you're directing interferes with your concentration, and I wouldn't do that again.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

Are any of us self-taught? It just means I didn't go to school for it. But you do have teachers. You have mentors.

I think I was never home when I was directing, because you're either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time. It's really time-consuming, but it was great fun.

I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.