Dexter Fletcher Quotes

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

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

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

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

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

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

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.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

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

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

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

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

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.

As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.

Like any other creative person, I would make home videos, and I would make sketches with my friends, and I would make my own movies, so I have some love for the creative process.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

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.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

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.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

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

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.