Directing Movies Quotes

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.

Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young. So it's like he's sort of a senior and I'm a junior, in terms of the business. He's done so much - from writing on Conan and Chris Rock to writing and directing movies, having his own HBO show, "Lucky Louie," and now having "Louie" on FX.

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.