The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's…

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing…

— John Ford

I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about directing is…

— Charlie Kaufman

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and…

— Leigh Whannell

I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing something. Someone…

— Michael Urie

I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do.

— Annie Leibovitz

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define…

— Richard Avedon

I don't photograph any two people who are remotely the same.

— Jock Sturges

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never…

— Susan Sontag

The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.

— Matt Dillon

It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have…

— Robert De Niro

The cool thing about directing is, whatever cool thing works in the scene, it's still making the episode be a great story, and everyone's…

— Clark Gregg

The strange thing about directing, for me, was that opportunities arose; I'd had some nice roles as an actor, but it just never happened…

— Sean Mathias

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

— John Slattery

When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black & white you photograph their souls.

— Anonymous

The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad

— David Ogilvy