Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelly Jones

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Colin Trevorrow

I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.

John Crowley

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

I enjoy directing something I've never seen. If I see it, it tends to influence my directing, and I end up second-guessing myself.

Salli Richardson

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

James L. Brooks

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can imagine, but I always think it's the one thing I can do when I'm directing is say is that it's all about the actors, that I can say, 'We're all here to serve the actors.'

Alex Graves

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

We're looking at a somewhat flat start to the week. Oil prices look set to play a key role in directing equities.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

David Fincher

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

Anjelica Huston

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Otto Preminger

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

Stunt coordinating is a good training ground for directing because you have exposure to all the departments in film.

Mike Birbiglia

Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

Misha Collins

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

Nikki Reed

I think for women especially, writing and creating your own role, producing, directing - having some control over what you do is really important. We can pave the way for other women to send what messages they want sent.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

David Schwimmer

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college with my theatre company.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

Andrew McCarthy

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Stephen Moyer

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.

Honeysuckle Weeks

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote.

Zak Orth

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Daniel Schultz

We are directing them to resolve these serious violations promptly, and to do it not as it relates to specific products ... but rather to do it on a corporate-wide basis.

We are directing most of the funding where it is most appropriate. The new funds will be expended within the programs that are operating - aerials, moguls, skating - the sports where there are more potential medals for our money.

On the last day, I wound up doing everything from carting flowers into the house to directing traffic.

Preston Sturges

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

Peter Jackson

I thought that there might be something unsatisfying about directing two Tolkien movies after 'Lord of the Rings.' I'd be trying to compete with myself and deliberately doing things differently.

Peter Jackson

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.