Among Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that was always…

— David Benioff

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good…

— Kevin Spacey

Becoming a writer, and then a director, was taking my creative life in my own hands, and wanting to have stories that I wanted…

— Marielle Heller

My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on…

— Judy Davis

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

— David Hare

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write…

— Charles Martin Smith

The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and…

— Alex Garland

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to…

— Anthony Minghella

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except…

— Noah Baumbach

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing…

— Mike Mills

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

— Peter Hedges