Directing Quote by Cate Blanchett

With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

— Joe Hahn

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part…

— Karyn Kusama

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

— Clint Eastwood

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

Directing is a constant test of your communicative powers. You're constantly trying to explain people your vision of what you want and steer these…

— Tom Hanks

Directing is a way of looking at something and then communicating it.

— Elaine May

My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.

— Alex Garland

For me, directing is sort of like cooking or something. You know that you're making this interesting recipe while you're putting all the ingredients…

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're…

— Stuart Townsend

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

— Marianne Elliott

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

— Atom Egoyan

Directing is an act of interpretation.

— James Watkins