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Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything…

— Steven Knight

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone else's point…

— Johan Renck

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it…

— Dan Gilroy

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

— Brett Ratner

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.

— Adrienne Shelly

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

It's always great when a director is just supportive of what you're doing. They're not so much critiquing you but giving you more ideas,…

— Emma Roberts

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

— Barkhad Abdi