Hayley Kiyoko Quotes

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

I started out my career as a screenwriter and quickly discovered that adhering to a script isn't always the best way to make a film. You have to take into consideration the nuances of the characters and what the actors bring to their roles.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

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.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

One thing I'm passionate about is directing. I've always wanted to direct.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

My relationship with every film is more or less the same, but the experience is the difference. It comes with the people I am working with, the character I play.

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

Working with George Miller was an education. It was eight college degrees in character development and directing all at once.

I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

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 think acting really helps as a director. It's just no question, because you totally understand the acting process.