John Francis Daley Quotes

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

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

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

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.

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

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I love directing. I love creating things that I don't necessarily even have to be in. I like creating worlds. So I'm getting into writing movies and selling movies and television shows and creating worlds that then get to live beyond me.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

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.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

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.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.