Ideas Quote by Charles Martin Smith

Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

— Noah Centineo

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

— Rob Reiner

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

— John Sayles

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college…

— David Schwimmer

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

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating…

— Tamzin Merchant

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except…

— Noah Baumbach

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

— Peter Jackson

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell…

— Mike White

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good…

— Kevin Spacey

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted…

— Marielle Heller