Lorene Scafaria Quotes

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

I can only go with my gut and say what I would like to do, and then my producer comes in and makes it happen.

I think everything that I've done, I've been involved with for longer. Either you develop it from scratch, or you take something, and you develop it, and you work on the script, but I'm not sure how good I'd be at just sort of taking a piece of material and being a director for hire like that.

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

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.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see things through from the beginning to the end. I'm responsible for one small part, so my scope is much more limited than theirs.

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.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

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

It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers, producers, and directors pay attention to it.

I think there's a tendency with actor/directors to imagine themselves playing every part and trying to get people to follow their rhythm, their tempo, their pace. I've learned now to just love being at the center of this creative swirl.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

I'll put it this way: with the kind of films that I do - creatively driven, with interesting directors and writers - I don't feel the need to work with the super established, top-tier directors that are out there.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.