Harold Ramis Quotes

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

It was never in the plan for me to direct 'Episode IX,' so I don't know what's going to happen with it.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

I want to write and direct a movie one day.

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

Me and my roommate wrote and directed a little short comedy called 'The Elevator.'

I like to write, and I would love to be a screenwriter one day and a director.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

I'd always wanted to write a novel, but after attending film school, I'd spent five years knocking on Hollywood's door and had put that idea aside.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.