Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Matt Damon

The fact that Terry was directing the movie sold it to me,

I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.

Gary Sinise

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.

Gary Sinise

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

Lori Petty

I think many actresses want to be famous and want to be the prettiest, and that wasn't my trek. I was thinking, 'I gotta get out of here... how do I get out of here?' I like acting, but I like directing more.

James Franco

There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

Harmony Korine

When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

Mark Waters

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.'

Scott Aukerman

I get inspired when I look at Tom Lennon, who did 'Reno 911!' for six seasons while writing huge movies and directing and also doing other pilots; he did that FX pilot, the 'Star Trek' thing.

Kim Fields

Directing at seven-and-a-half months pregnant was lots of fun.

Laurie Metcalf

One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.

Rick Rubin

We felt Johnny's presence during the whole process through to the end. It felt like he was directing the proceedings, and I know that the musicians all felt that as well... More than once, Fergie and I would look at each other and say 'Johnny would love this,' because it was so good and so different from anything we'd done before, we knew he would be excited by what was happening.

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.

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.

John Franklin

I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live,

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.

Chris Lowell

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

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.

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.

Allison Mack

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

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!

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.

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.

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.

Katie Aselton

It's really fun to go back and forth from acting projects to directing projects. You don't have as much responsibility when you're acting, but you have more fun. But then you miss having that responsibility, and so you go back and torture yourself and make a movie.

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