Matthew McConaughey Quotes

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

For my web series 'Get Your Life,' I wrote that and produced it and starred in it so that I could have a body of work that represents my voice as a writer and as a performer.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

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

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.