Easier Quote by John Landgraf

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have certain intents.…

— Glenn Ficarra

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as…

— Drew Goddard

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

It's good to work with a writer-director.

— Raashi Khanna

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others.…

— Anil Ravipudi

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

— Vijay Sethupathi

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

— Samantha Morton

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job,…

— Drew Goddard

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too…

— Dennis Farina

The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want…

— Steven Zaillian

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

— Michael Pitt

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

— Grant Heslov