29 Quotes by Mark Waters

It's all just a bit of fun ...

Usually, like, on 'Mean Girls,' the task that Tina Fey and I set for ourselves was we wanted to maintain a comic intensity throughout the movie, where people just don't really get a break from laughing. And if they do, it's for a brief emotional scene, and then we're going to once again try to knock them on their heels again with comedy.

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'

My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.

Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know?

I find women much more interesting than dudes.

I can tell you that from the director's chair, young actors love to be challenged, to be given killer lines that take time to wrap their mind around.

Frankenstein's actually interesting; he's kind of like a zombie.