Day Quote by Davis Guggenheim

When I work, I'm the actor. I'm going to do my job. I'm not going to direct the movie. If I wanted to direct…

— Tom Cruise

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

— Peter Jackson

As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but…

— Danny Huston

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

It was always my intention to direct. I went to film school. And then I wanted to know how to work with actors, so…

— Benn Northover

I went to film school to direct.

— Sam Esmail

I didn't train in directing; I talk to actors the way I talk to anybody.

— Noah Baumbach

I just go from one movie to the next and try not to get fired.

— James Newton Howard

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside…

— Edward James Olmos

I wanted to direct when I was very young. I had no idea of cinema, of who's doing what. That was my first instinct:…

— Thomas Bidegain

I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I…

— Ben Drew

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

— Jack Lemmon