I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a…

I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's…

— Harold Ramis

I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director.

— Melissa Leo

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

— Limmy

I wonder if I'll meet one person that knows enough people that can get me recognized as a writer. Oh I already have he…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“What I really want is to be recognized as a writer; that someday, my poetry — this is an interesting paradox — would be…

— Harley King

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

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

I have to say from an actor's perspective, to work with a director who has been an actor through most of their career is…

— Karen Allen

There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I really would…

— Callan McAuliffe

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

— Anthony Minghella

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

— Jacob Tremblay