Writer Director Quotes

I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

I'm a writer-director originally from Rhode Island, now living in Los Angeles. I've spent the past eleven years working with a writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and am now making the transition into feature directing thanks to this script we wrote together and our incredible producer Jordana Mollick.

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.

I wanted to work on a cable show and with a writer/director because that's a much more fulfilling and freeing experience, as an actor.

With Mel [Brooks], only one time and that was later on during "Young Frankenstein" - never with Zero [Mostel] and never with Mel except I was writing every day, and then Mel would come to the house and read what I'd written. And then he'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, OK. But we need a villain or we need whatever it was.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

For me to get to work with a writer-director over time in developing a project - my investment feels much more profound. I know that whatever is on the other end I'm going to feel that much closer to.

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy that it's hard to contextualise it in a script.

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.

I like Rebecca Miller and her writing. She's a tremendous writer and director.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

Australia, most of the filmmakers there write a film and they direct it. There's a lot of writer/directors there, because nobody wants to write a script and then let it go when they've had that much of a personal investment to it, because you're not getting paid huge amounts of money in Australia to direct.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too precious with the words. If you're a writer-director, you can see what you're doing and see your work in action, so I think you can correct it right there and still not compromise yourself.