“Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.” WritingI CanProduceDirect Author:Frank Langella
“Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.” WritingWellsMadeWholeRealizingTreeProduceIndustryDirectYeahHillsFacetsTree Hill Author:Ashley Rickards
“It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.” KnowsWritingFilmFunEasyDirectDesksKeyboardsInteractiveGregariousBashDirecting Film Author:Guy Ritchie
“I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.” WritingActorsChanceHavensDirectAspire Author:Stephen Root
“I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.” WantFeelsWritingStoriesActorsRightsPlansProduceDirectVulnerableMovieFilmmakingScreenplaysBaggage Author:Kerry Washington
“I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.” WritingTryingYearsI CanTwoStoriesRaceDirectTwo YearsTake Me Author:Steven Spielberg
“In my view the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.” PeopleWritingPlayFactsFilmResultsViewsWatchesNovelCreativeDirectCreative WorkArtificiality Author:Will Self
“The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that.” ThinkingWayWritingHelpingStoriesWorryIssuesCostProjectsDirectProductionsDo The BestConstraints Author:Jose Padilha
“It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.” WayWritingWantedDirect Author:Ben Stiller
“Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.” WritingMindDirectDictatorCan't ChangeVectors Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life.” WayWritingArtLyingValuesTurnsImaginationNaturalKnowingModernWalkingDespairDevilDirectDifficultyDetailsSensesNosesFixedWorks Of ArtNot KnowingImpossibilityModern LifeLiftingScrutinyGood WritingFinality Book:Kora in Hell: Improvisations Source: Kora in Hell: Improvisations
“There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious.” WritingIdeasReasonPerfectProtectDirectInitials Author:Ricky Gervais
“I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.” ThinkingWayWantWritingLevelsEmotionalMusic IsIntellectualDirectAbstractSimilarityIndirect Author:Karl Ove Knausgard
“I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.” WantWritingDirectorsDirect Author:Walter Hill
“I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.” ThinkingKnowsWritingDirectorsDirect Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.” WritingMy OwnProduceProjectsDirectFundMoguls Author:Kevin Hart
“I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.” WritingYearsActionWantedHorrorDirectNineNine YearsAction Movie Author:Jay Baruchel
“I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.” WritingAbleFilmDirect Author:Anthony Minghella
“Combine a left-leaning upbringing with a family with direct experience of the Holocaust and someone with aspirations to write and I guess, sooner or later, that person will have a stab at writing something about the Holocaust.” WritingPersonsLeftDirectAspirationHolocaustSooner Or LaterUpbringing Author:Elliot Perlman
“When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingWholeHandsTogetherCertainGivenPiecesInformationCommunicationDirectThirdsRangeRelyHorizonFourth Author:R. D. Laing