Directing Quotes

531 quotes by 436 authors

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing. — Michele Soavi
I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want… — Gordon Willis
Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people… — Gordon Willis
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe… — Dustin Hoffman
I'm not a preacher and I'm not a pastor. But I really feel my career was leading me to make this. The Holy Ghost was… — Mel Gibson
The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department. — Matt Dillon
Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing. — Joan Chen
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre.… — Richard E. Grant
I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet. — Adam Brody
I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing — Mary-Kate Olsen
I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best… — Terrence Howard
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging. — Stanley Tucci
I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a… — Guy Ritchie
I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all… — Dennis Hopper
I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was… — Judy Holliday
If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job. — Ron Howard
The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be… — Tony Goldwyn
My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent… — Alton Brown
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working — Peter Fonda

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