Average Quote by John Sayles

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 always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is…

— Harold Ramis

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film…

— Gus Van Sant

I've always equated the writing process with editing, sort of like when I get through editing the movie, that's like my last draft of…

— Quentin Tarantino

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

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is…

— Charlie Kaufman

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On…

— Zach Braff

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and…

— Duncan Jones

I think when you're writing prose there's a lot of attendant description and that's were I used to really go bananas. With a screenplay…

— Diablo Cody

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever,…

— Chester Brown

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being…

— J. C. Chandor

My screenplays are very detailed. The reason they're detailed... you have to think on your feet. You have to be ready to change because…

— Deepa Mehta