Henry Selick Quotes

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

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

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

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

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

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

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!

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

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

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

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.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

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.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

I think films are bigger than structure.

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 make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.