Angle Quote by Alan Ball

Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just sit back…

— David Shore

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the…

— M. Night Shyamalan

I started working on how I would direct this a year before we started shooting "All We Had" and I was prepping, acting, and…

— Katie Holmes

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it.…

— Sofia Coppola

There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10…

— Paul Schrader

You know, at this point, my focus still is acting, but I think at some point in time, I definitely want to do some…

— Jackie Earle Haley

I think I was never home when I was directing, because you're either prepping, shooting, or editing, and then acting at the same time.…

— Miguel Ferrer

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only…

— David Fincher

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again.…

— Dexter Fletcher

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you…

— Campbell Scott

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team…

— David Morrissey

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time…

— Danny Boyle