Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know? — Mark Waters Adaptation 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… — Mark Waters Actor 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… — Mark Waters Actor 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 About 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… — Mark Waters About 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… — Mark Waters About 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… — Mark Waters Brought 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 Any 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… — Mark Waters Actually 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… — Mark Waters Be different 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… — Mark Waters Crazy 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… — Mark Waters Able 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… — Mark Waters College Copy Share Image
After 'Freaky Friday,' another teen movie was not on my playlist. — Mark Waters After Copy Share Image
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you… — Mark Waters Almost 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… — Mark Waters Actor Copy Share Image
My brother is a screenwriter. He likes to say, 'I like to take on a genre when it's dying, because then people… — Mark Waters Because Copy Share Image
'Twilight' was about a naive person who knew nothing of a certain world, basically discovering that this world existed and totally being… — Mark Waters About Copy Share Image
I've read the whole 'Divergent' series, the 'Pretty' series. I just read it because I find this stuff interesting to read. — Mark Waters Because Copy Share Image
Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic… — Mark Waters Again Copy Share Image
When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put… — Mark Waters Actor Copy Share Image
Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie. — Mark Waters Actually Copy Share Image
