Directing Quotes

531 quotes by 436 authors

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that… — Juliet Landau
I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing. — Peter Capaldi
I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at… — Vikram Rohit Shetty
I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me. — Timothy Omundson
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page. — Rob Marshall
I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines. — Chris Lowell
I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well. — John Lasseter
Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my… — Michael Jai White
I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That,… — Kyle Dunnigan
Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done. — Anton Corbijn
I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well. — Michelle MacLaren
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect… — Matthew James Thomas
I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the… — Rudy Vallee
I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in. — Ronald D. Moore
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat… — Chadwick Boseman
Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor. — Martin Donovan
I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to… — Martin Donovan
Directing, what little I know, is as much knowing when to step in as when to step out. — Robert Lorenz
TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay… — John Polson
Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are… — Lynda Obst

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