Robert Culp Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Acting's fine if the script's written by Paddy Chayefsky and Martin Scorsese directs it, but unless you have something like that, I don't really enjoy acting.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This is how I intended it, this is how I want to shoot it, and these are the decisions that I'll live by,' I think directing is a logical conclusion of mine.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

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

I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak.

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

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

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.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

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 love the work that goes into making a movie and creating a different world. It is a wholesome experience.

I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.