Jake Gyllenhaal would like to move behind the camera one day, but the Oscar nominee says he has yet to find the right project to direct.
“I’m searching … but I have yet to feel presumptuous enough,” Gyllenhaal said at Saturday’s Produced By: New York conference.
The “Brokeback Mountain” star says he’ll know he’s found his directorial debut “when my heart lines up with the material … in a visual way.”
Gyllenhaal has already begun to move behind the camera. The actor isn’t just starring in “Nightcrawler,” he’s producing the edgy thriller, as well. He also executive produced the 2012 police drama “End of Watch.”
The actor’s father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a director, and his mother, Naomi Foner, is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, so he always understood the headaches and heartache of securing financing, lining up talent and bringing a movie to the big screen.
“The language...
“I’m searching … but I have yet to feel presumptuous enough,” Gyllenhaal said at Saturday’s Produced By: New York conference.
The “Brokeback Mountain” star says he’ll know he’s found his directorial debut “when my heart lines up with the material … in a visual way.”
Gyllenhaal has already begun to move behind the camera. The actor isn’t just starring in “Nightcrawler,” he’s producing the edgy thriller, as well. He also executive produced the 2012 police drama “End of Watch.”
The actor’s father, Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a director, and his mother, Naomi Foner, is an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, so he always understood the headaches and heartache of securing financing, lining up talent and bringing a movie to the big screen.
“The language...
- 10/25/2014
- by Brent Lang
- Variety - Film News
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