Chris Evans Quotes

I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

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

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

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.

Normally, if you're lucky, the idea of a film you have in your head is more or less what you get back when you see it after the editing and the whole post-production process.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change the name of the town, and make an entirely different picture.

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

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

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I love telling stories. But I believe that nobody could teach you to direct a movie.