Misha Collins Quotes

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

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

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

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

With acting, there's a certain amount of independence you have within the framework of the storytelling. When it's done well, it's a collaborative medium.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

I would say doing film is all about trust and conviction. It's about believing in an idea.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

I find directing more satisfying.

A film is different than a script. The text of the script is what it is.

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 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.

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

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.