Leigh Whannell Quotes

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

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

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

I definitely want to direct and write - all of it.

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.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

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

I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.