Different people have different styles, but there is an…

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they…

— Michael Emerson

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On…

— Zach Braff

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be…

— Uwe Boll

One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer,…

— Gina Bellman

As an actor you can always blame the director or writer for negative feedback. But as a writer, you're the reason why everyone's in…

— Zawe Ashton

“We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.”

— Andrew Kaufman

As an actor, director or writer you never want to be doing one thing. To show that diversity and be able to do more…

— Noel Clarke

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Andy was not a director and not a writer. He operated the camera a little bit, and he wasn't even so good at that.

— Paul Morrissey

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem…

— J. J. Abrams

Yes, I do bring something of my own to the plate. But I strongly believe that a film is a director and writer's vision.

— Mithila Palkar

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

— Ben Affleck

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Conrad Hall

The dream, I think, with any project is it starts with an idea, and then somebody writes it, and the writer hopes that a…

— Max Greenfield