Tate Taylor Quotes

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

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.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

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

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

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

I went to college and studied writing, and I got involved in theater. It's always been my passion.

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Once you see the entertainment world from both sides, you really get a greater understanding of how it all operates. As an actor going into screenwriting, I was able to understand what type of dialogue feels natural and what an actor could actually say.

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

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

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

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

With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?