Casey Affleck Quotes

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

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

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

Usually, those people don't even like actors and they can't wait until they get in the cutting room. They kind of break down in categories: directors who like to be surprised and some of them abhor being surprised. As far as directing, we all direct when we're acting in movies... every single one of us.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.

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.

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

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

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 know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

To be a good director, you have to spend a lot of time on actual sets, but today, there's a lot of people who spend a lot of time in dark rooms writing a script, and they'll go in and tell the story to some suit at a studio who says, 'Okay, this is great, let's go.' But that doesn't necessarily mean you know what to do once you're on set.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

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.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.