Misha Collins Quotes

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How I am going to shoot this?'

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

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

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

Directing is a tremendous art.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

I think you've got to talk to the director, see the director's films and recognise that it's important that the work fits right in and see if as part of the movie.

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

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

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

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

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 who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.