Albert Brooks Quotes

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

I want to act for the rest of my life - and I also want to pursue directing. Watching Bill Condon direct 'Twilight' kind of made me think, 'OK yeah, I really want to do this now.' This idea that you can make an image in your head and be in full control of how it comes out - I thought that was really cool.

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Every actor wants to direct.

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.

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

I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

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.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

When you watch a Coen brothers movie, it is always so certain about what it is trying to portray. That is their strength. The minute they write a word, they know how it will look on-screen. They are very purposeful, with no kind of mistakes.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.