Being Quote by J. C. Chandor

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to…

— Harold Ramis

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying…

— Mick Garris

Directing a film is a lot of work.

— Fred Durst

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

— Ricky Gervais

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

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not…

— Charlie Kaufman

I don't think it matters what the frequency is of me writing or directing a movie. It doesn't really matter to anybody else. I'm…

— Judd Apatow

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and…

— Leigh Whannell

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people…

— Taylor Hackford

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as…

— William Monahan

I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I…

— Miranda July

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision,…

— Donnie Yen