Directing Quotes · Page 5

Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene.

— Kurt Sutter

Sometimes the entire tone of an episode can be reshaped in directing or editing or acting.

— Bear McCreary

I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.

— Redman

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

— Gavid Hood

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

— Otto Preminger

Well, directing is doing the key drawings, not the key animation, mind you.

— Chuck Jones

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to…

— Tate Taylor

The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

— Elijah Wood

For me, doing all the TV stuff and having the experience directing, knowing what you want to make is 90% of it.…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a…

— Clint Eastwood

We want to make a 100 million dollar movie that we have created, in the way James Cameron or Chris Nolan does.…

— Zal Batmanglij

I think, to Chelsea's [Handler] point, I still need directing because sometimes I go a little bit off beat in a way…

— Gordon Ramsay

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like…

— Angela Bassett

Three-quarters of directors waste four hours on a shot that requires five minutes of actual directing. I prefer to have five minutes'…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I'm focusing on my efforts behind the camera. I'm doing some producing and directing so that I can make projects for all…

— Jonathan Keltz

I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to…

— Sarah Polley

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To…

— Robert Osborne

I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do…

— Mike White

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just…

— Zak Orth

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun…

— David Labrava

When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I…

— Adam Rapp

After directing the first film it feels kind of tricky being back to being in front of the camera, because I've always…

— Denzel Washington

Herzog and Malick both have this very unique naturalist intentionality to their process. It's about creating the mood, creating the focus and…

— Sam Pressman

There's people who live life authentically and there's people who live a life of fabrication. And it begins with the question of…

— Michael Mann

Coaching a football player is the same as directing an actor. The guy has to follow orders and be able to perform…

— Hal Needham

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

— Heber J. Grant

Directing is such a high. It's the hardest job ever, but I really love doing it.

— Rza

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.

— Nadine Labaki

My directing opportunities have been awesome, and my acting opportunities, some have been great and some have not.

— Milana Vayntrub

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

— Steve Buscemi

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

— Peter Capaldi

I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of…

— Carrie Mae Weems

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.

— B. F. Skinner

As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing.

— Jeon Yeo-been

When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the…

— Griffin Dunne

I usually don't like to talk about money, but I talk about the movie, and the other aspects of directing, etc.

— Tommy Wiseau

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

— Domhnall Gleeson

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

— Morten Tyldum

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

— Nicholas Jarecki