Charlize Theron Quotes

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

The business has changed, and some people can keep talking about theatrical in these wondrous terms - it will survive, but it becomes narrower what you can make. So the films I'm most interested in, studios - or even the independents - aren't making them. I'm mostly interested in people.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's very exciting and a really good way to collide all the things that you've known and experienced in the business and put them all into one.

I think you have to write what you want to watch.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.

If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

I definitely want make an impact in television. I want to make a continued and greater impact in feature films, and I want to be somebody who continues to be at the forefront of creating a wide variety of content that I could be proud of and that engages people on all levels.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

I think films are bigger than structure.

What I try to do - I mean 'try,' because you don't get there all the time - is to have impact with content. It's those moments in which you're trying to bring people beyond filmed theater. If I have an ambition, it's that.

If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.

There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

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

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.