Better Quote by James Watkins

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you…

— Lorene Scafaria

You have to accept that the moment you hand a script to a director, even if you've written it as an original script, it…

— Victor Levin

With something that's a little lower budget and more indie, it's really important that the director is able to have the vision spot-on and…

— Katy O'Brian

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

— Cliff Martinez

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it…

— Dan Gilroy

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

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in.…

— Willem Dafoe

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care how they…

— Kurt Russell

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

When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get…

— Cary Fukunaga

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss and has all the power. I'm a control…

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach