Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but would immediately hunker down to start working on the reams of labyrinthine dialogue they had to… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around. — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know? — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Unlike other young actors I've worked with who will remain nameless, Zoey Deutch and Lucy Fry would never go out partying after work, but… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out. — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
I love sports. When I'm not playing, I'm watching, reading, or otherwise obsessing about them. This probably stems from growing up in Indiana, where… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
If you look at the least effective of the 'Twilight' movies, it was when they brought in an action-movie director instead of a director… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
The 'Twilight' movies are great in their own right, but they certainly don't have any sense of humor to them. — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
Daydreaming allows you to play out scenarios where you miraculously save the day. You play out scenarios in your head that are kind of… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch… — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years. — Mark Waters Copy Share Image