College Quote by Conor McPherson

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

— Albert Brooks

I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.

— Tom Stoppard

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to…

— Denis Villeneuve

I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of…

— Jack Thorne

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Somehow I had a lot of the skills that I didn't know were required for directing. I didn't realize that my life had been…

— Marielle Heller

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

— Peter Jackson

Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have…

— Michael Jai White

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written.…

— David Antin

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of…

— Joel Edgerton

After graduating from University, I began directing in theatre too, and I've been directing, writing and acting ever since, which has allowed me to…

— Pollyanna McIntosh

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