John Curran Quotes

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.

When you read a play, the words speak to you. When you read a script, there's no way you can tell if that's the way that movie will turn out.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

I guess the first screenplay of mine that was done was 'Falling in Love' with Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep.