Actors Quote by Mark Webber

I was already interested in directing when I was very young. I knew that was something I was going to be doing.

— Rob Reiner

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 first movie I was when I was around 16 or 17. It was a hard-core drama, artistic movie. I had never done anything…

— Shira Haas

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

— Mathieu Amalric

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

— Michael Mann

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

— Peter Stormare

From when I was a young boy, I wanted to be the first person to direct a movie at 100.

— Ron Howard

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

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

— Bryan Singer

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else…

— Ethan Hawke

I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did…

— Rob Reiner

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

— Harris Dickinson