Directing Quote by Maximilian Schell

Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit…

— Malik Yoba

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time…

— Danny Boyle

Directing is a way of looking at something and then communicating it.

— Elaine May

With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

— Joe Hahn

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have…

— Barbra Streisand

Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.

— Eric Balfour

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again.…

— Dexter Fletcher

I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all…

— Dan Mazer

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors,…

— Abraham Polonsky

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point and I thought the best way to start…

— Luke Evans

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

— Clint Eastwood

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

— Marianne Elliott