43 Quotes by Dito Montiel

You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.

To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast.

I like to see people put themselves into films, which is part of the reason why I love Woody Allen films so much-I believe his actors' work. I have a feeling that many actors in his films are similar to their characters, and I like that.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character.

If actors are making a little film with me at 2am in Nashville, they're not doing it to get paid. They're doing it because there's something special about the characters, which helps the film become more interesting.

I was too crazy in my teenage years and I wasn't doing anything that made any sense.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Movies are weird; it's like trying to make a painting with one hundred people. It's a weird world, but every job is weird; it's always a little bit hard, crazy and fun, a nice combination.