Nia Long Quotes

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The director in TV and the writer and the creator are working very much hand in hand.

I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.

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.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

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.

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.

All the characters play an important role. For me, as an actor, for my character to come out so beautifully, I would give all the credit to my co-actors, directors and writers.

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

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.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

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

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

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.

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

For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.