Happy Quote by Leigh Whannell

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

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

— Peter Hedges

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

I think I was, like, maybe frustrated for many years because I didn't try to direct. And since I made my movie I'm just…

— Melanie Laurent

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 think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is…

— Charlie Kaufman

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the…

— Preston Sturges

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating…

— Tamzin Merchant

Writing screenplays is incredibly hard. I can't call it joy. Writing Novels? Joy. Directing? Joy. Writing Screenplays? That's where you pay all your dues.

— Stephen Chbosky