Always Quote by Cameron Crowe

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director. I spent a lot…

— Cameron Crowe

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to…

— Anthony Minghella

It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I…

— Mary Harron

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

— Akira Kurosawa

I always wanted to be a director. And I make films that I like.

— Dileesh Pothan

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

— Karthi

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I…

— Bruce Beresford

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

— Sean Penn

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

— R. Kelly

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always…

— David Benioff