Bash Quote by Guy Ritchie

With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have…

— Catherine O'Hara

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure…

— Henry Selick

For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping…

— David Ayer

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier…

— Nicholas Sparks

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

— Sydney Pollack

It's a great luxury for me to be able to write on the films that I direct, and kind of a nice thing to…

— Harold Ramis

To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.

— Diego Luna

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film…

— Gus Van Sant

It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.

— Ken Loach

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and…

— Leigh Whannell

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It…

— Fede Alvarez