Melanie Scrofano Quotes

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

I was amazed by how much you have to think about as a director. As an actor, you don't have to think about much at all, as it turns out. It's very easy. And then when you step into the director's role, there's this whole universe of stuff that you have to pay attention to that's amazing to me.

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.

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.

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

There are so many things that go into a movie that it's amazing that anything gets made anyway.

For me, every film is like the first picture. I am very choosy with the director and producer.

A filmmaker has to have faith in talent.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.

Directing is a very, very difficult job.

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.

'Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? I had a blast, and the film is a very, very well put together movie - from the director to the writing the cast.