John Cena Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

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

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I view myself still as a director. That's what I do.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

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.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

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.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.