Been Quote by John Carpenter

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

— Peter Billingsley

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

— Alexandra Cassavetes

I have always been a director at heart.

— Sajid Khan

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in…

— Mel Smith

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas

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

I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to evaluate the…

— Rob Urbinati

I started as a director and just fell upon acting.

— Danny Huston

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

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

— Mike Nichols

I started as a director very young and fell into acting.

— Peter Stormare

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film…

— Park Chan-wook