Donal Logue Quotes

Doing anything on a movie at Sundance is great.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

Writer/directors are, for me, the most inspiring people to work for because they are the person on set that knows the answer to all the questions. They have the most invested in the project because they've been with it from conception.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

I think I would like directing. I really like coming at the work that way.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

My first film festival and my first film that I've ever been in, 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' that was at Sundance.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

I don't have a director's mind.

In terms of directing a feature, I'd want the story to be right - you know, it's a year of your life, and you have to be focused on one thing, so I want it to be a story that I really, really care about and will enjoy making.

I don't watch many films. I just make sure my directors are really good. I will work even with a debut director, but the one-hour narration of the script should be mind-blowing.

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

I've been producing projects, and I hope that It's inevitable one day that I direct a film. I have a lot of things I want to do.

I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.

Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!

Padam Kumar is a technically sound director, very contemporary.

For me, every film is like the first picture. I am very choosy with the director and producer.