Adapt Quote by Francis Ford Coppola

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

— Anthony Minghella

I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.

— Sam Levinson

I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I wish I could direct a movie at some point of my life.

— Anupama Parameswaran

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except…

— Noah Baumbach

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

— Peter Jackson

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

— Dustin Hoffman

I always wanted to direct a film.

— Poonam Dhillon

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

— Walter Hill

No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk…

— Jeff Abbott

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

— Ralph Fiennes

I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them.

— Bruce Feirstein