Becoming Quote by Frank Whaley

It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better, you have…

— Woody Allen

When I direct my own scripts, it's much easier as it's been in my head for a year already... What I love about this…

— Ricky Gervais

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

— Robert Culp

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the…

— William Monahan

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

— Tony Gilroy

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have…

— William H. Macy

It's unusual when you get scripts not wanting to change things - I'm one of those actors who writers must hate as I'm always…

— Denis Lawson

Following the script is one thing, but the unique way in which you deliver your lines is what makes them your own.

— DeRay Davis

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide. You take…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of them writes…

— Udo Kier

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when…

— John Sayles