David R. Ellis Quotations

Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you.

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

Comedy. I think that's something I'd really like to do.

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

We're talking to New Line. They've got a couple projects they're interested in me doing and I'm having meetings at MGM. There's a lot of available projects.