Cinema Quote by Mike White Download Open image “As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.” — Mike White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Directors Writing
The key is you don't want to control the controlled stuff too much and you don't want to be too free flowing in uncontrolled… — Greig Fraser Copy Share Image
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control. — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them. — Mike White Copy Share Image
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. — Mike White Copy Share Image
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually,… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose… — Mike White Copy Share Image
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts. — Mike White Copy Share Image
As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging… — Mike White Copy Share Image
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to. — Mike White Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
