Marc Webb Quotes

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

In the creative sense, I'm looking forward to collaborating with people I have mutual respect for to create some really good work.

Advertising agencies come to you and they are great fans, they are great creative people themselves, but they ask you to do something, and you say, "Well, we will, we'll create something together." And it is work. It's like you're doing something and they're saying, "Change this" and "Change that." It's not hard, horrible work, but creatively it's not just freedom.

Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.

I find directing more satisfying.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.

To make films, you have to have boundless energy; you have to work and play with others really, really well, and I'm really a more contemplative kind of person. I like to sit at home and think, a lot.

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

No actor can give his best performance without the help of the director.

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I've found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don't have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.

You're collaborating with people you don't even know, when you're making a film. You're collaborating with people you've never seen. So, the collaborative process is very, very different than when you're collaborating on a record with the musicians you've worked with all your life.