Directing Quote by Elaine May Download Open image “Directing is a way of looking at something and then communicating it.” — Elaine May ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Directing Looking Something Then Way
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit… — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors,… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal expression, the same kind of… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
You know, when I was very young, I thought it didn't matter what happened to me when I died, so long as my work… — Elaine May Copy Share Image
Writing is close to acting. In directing, you control. Acting, you can't control how good you are, and you can't control how good you… — Elaine May Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go… — Elaine May Copy Share Image
Laugh Line' was sort of the way I am at interviews. I could think of nothing. — Elaine May Copy Share Image
I'll know when I'm successful. That'll be when Safeway cashes my check without identification. — Elaine May Copy Share Image
We have such respect for the English that, when an Englishman says Hollywood sucks, people listen. — Elaine May Copy Share Image
“Quote of the Day “You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears… — Elaine May Copy Share Image
The only successful person in the world is Bing Crosby. I'm sure he'll be working tomorrow, and that's success. — Elaine May Copy Share Image
The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start… — Elaine May Copy Share Image
If all of the people who hate 'Ishtar' had seen it, I would be a rich woman today. — Elaine May Copy Share Image
As a woman, they think I want to show that I'm a nice person. I'm no one to be feared. When it comes down… — Elaine May Copy Share Image
“I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family. — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
I took on the role of CEO, which involves directing the Management Team and overall day-to-day operations of 500. — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
The producing thing has come quite naturally to me. I feel like for directing, I would like to be more technically-savvy. I want to… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place. — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
The hardest part about directing is getting everyone on the same page. — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
In acting, you are fulfilled if you give justice to your role... if you are able to do a credible performance and touch the… — Timothy Hutton Copy Share Image
Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of… — Danielle Harris Copy Share Image
I am capable of directing, and I am good at that. In order to have longevity as actors, you have to keep changing it… — Kirsten Nelson Copy Share Image
Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
