Ricky Gervais Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

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

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

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

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

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

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

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

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.

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.