Anil Ravipudi Quotes

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

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

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.

There comes a time as you continue to write and work on scripts and screenplays where you realize that you have opinions about the next step of the process, and you kind of want more control over the translation from page to screen.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

I don't write on set. I also - in a funny way, I don't really differentiate between the writing and directing. I think it's all sort of the same thing.

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.

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.