Actors Quote by Kirk Douglas

Before I became an actor, I was a producer and a visual effects supervisor. Our industry wasn't making the kind of films I was…

— Rana Daggubati

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

— Peter Billingsley

I became a producer because of projects I wanted to pursue and develop as a director or actor.

— Sam Wanamaker

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

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.

— Thomas Haden Church

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

I started my career as an actor, but I've been a director for 15 years now.

— Tom Verica

I wanted to make films before I wanted to be an actor.

— Harris Dickinson

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 had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

— Lynn Shelton

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

— Takeshi Kitano

I didn't make a film because I wanted a starring role. I made a film because I wanted to tell a story and I…

— Ben Drew