Bonnie Hunt Quotes

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.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

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.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.

Every actor is like, 'I could direct!'

You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

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.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

I'm an actor who directs. Probably always will be.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

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

I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning, I have to write.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

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

You grow up loving movies, and your first instinct is you want to be an actor, because those are the people you see in the movies. But when you actually become an actor, you're like, 'Oh, wait, this is actually only a small portion of the storytelling. If I want to really tell a story, I'd want to be a director.'