After Quote by Gary Ross

As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted…

— Gary Ross

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

— Peter Hedges

I was doing a couple of films which got shelved a week before the shooting was supposed to start.

— Saqib Saleem

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

I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do…

— Julie Plec

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team…

— David Morrissey

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV.…

— Alan Ball

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team…

— David Morrissey

I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something…

— Marti Noxon

I hate to write and spend months just waiting for the film to get financed. Then when you start preparing the film and you…

— Olivier Assayas

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it. And it's pretty irritating to get…

— John Malkovich