Hayley Kiyoko Quotes

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

Film is always a fight because you're the person, as the director, with a clear picture in your head of what you think is really exciting, and you're just trying to convince a bunch of other people to buy into that.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

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, and I'm totally open for that.

Sometimes, when you're on the streets, certain music inspires you, and then you have a vision. But, at the end of the day, it's a synthesis of visions, so you have to think, as a director, of a scene, or how to deliver a line, or how do this visually.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing.

There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.

The only actor-director I have worked with in my career is my brother in his film 'Dillagi,' and he got the best out of me.