Cinema Quote by Deepa Mehta

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

— Bobcat Goldthwait

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure…

— Henry Selick

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

— Ricky Gervais

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

— Charlie Kaufman

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of…

— Peter Gould

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

— Ava DuVernay

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

— Diablo Cody

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots,…

— Eric Bana

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping…

— David Ayer

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

— Obie Trice