Creator Quote by Elizabeth Bowen

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to…

— Anthony Minghella

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had…

— Abbas Kiarostami

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

— Mike Nichols

I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long time. Nobody…

— Paul Feig

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a…

— Clint Eastwood

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor.

— Russell Crowe

I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.

— Harmony Korine

A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.

— Ira Sachs

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in…

— Annie Potts

I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details.

— Sissy Spacek