Nahnatchka Khan Quotes

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

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

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

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

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

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

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

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a film. You have to take into consideration the nuances of the characters and what the actors bring to their roles.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

As a director, when you embrace a project, you try to understand as much as you can about its world, and you do that by embracing and engaging with people who are in that world. Then it's down to your best instincts, which is what most directing is about anyway.

For me, writing is a part of directing. It's the first stage of directing.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.