Action Quote by Hiro Murai

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't…

— Julie Delpy

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

— John Carpenter

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

— Nancy Juvonen

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

— Tim Robbins

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

— Rachel Griffiths

Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit…

— Malik Yoba

A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

— Jason Statham

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

The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors,…

— Abraham Polonsky

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have…

— Barbra Streisand

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision,…

— Donnie Yen