David Bailey Quotes

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

I love filmmakers.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

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

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

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.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.