Born Quote by Eva Victor

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.

— Eric Balfour

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

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

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

— Michael Arden

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 was liberating and intimidating. It's something I've always wanted to do.

— Dustin Lance Black

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

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it.…

— Sofia Coppola

It's extremely instructive to realize that you cannot do everything. You need to delegate, to find experts, to consult with them. A big part…

— Karyn Kusama

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

— Sydney Pollack

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