Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

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.

Annette Bening

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

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.

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.

I think essentially if you are directing a land use and planning organization it is your job to facilitate the growth.

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.

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.

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.

Neil Simon

Directing is too strong a word for what you do with Nathan, though. He's a joy to work with. And Matthew is a friend.

Danielle Harris

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

Adam Smith

Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Joe Cornish

I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

Steve Buscemi

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Stanley Tucci

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

That's why I'm directing this show to the men in the audience. They're the ones who need the instruction,

John Polson

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.

Jason Alexander

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

Domhnall Gleeson

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

Mike White

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

The offense did great in the first half. Larry did a wonderful job of directing things.

Mark Waters

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

Alex Karpovsky

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

Chris Lowell

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

Damien Chazelle

I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

Guy Ritchie

I don't know. I mean ... she ends up sort of directing things anyway, so I don't think it'll be anything new.