Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a…

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would…

— Taylor Hackford

I've had Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy as a tag-team partner.

— Roddy Piper

If I could have any tag team partner, I would choose Big E.

— Carmella

Whenever you hear that Kevin Spacey is producing a project and he is going to be very in touch and work closely with that…

— Nikki Reed

If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out. You created…

— Zoe Cassavetes

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never…

— Albert Brooks

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

— Jacob Tremblay

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts…

— Lena Dunham

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

— Limmy

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

— Anthony Minghella

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects…

— George R. R. Martin

As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted…

— Gary Ross

With comedy especially, it feels like such a clear-cut thing to be a writer-director. There is so much nuance and tone in a comedy…

— Todd Phillips

I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as fast as…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too…

— Dennis Farina