Answers Quote by Colin Hanks

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

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

— Elaine May

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

— Maximilian Schell

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

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again.…

— Dexter Fletcher

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have…

— Barbra Streisand

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

— Julie Delpy

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

Directing offers you the hope that your vision will reach the screen, unmolested and intact. Therefore, it's tantalizing to all writers.

— Jon Spaihts

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

— Drew Goddard

Both of my sisters have been teachers and they used to say you get asked between 300 and 600 questions every day which you…

— Danny Boyle