Education Quote by Michael Arden

Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

— Noah Centineo

Somehow I had a lot of the skills that I didn't know were required for directing. I didn't realize that my life had been…

— Marielle Heller

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

— Rob Reiner

Directing is like putting together a collage.

— Ethan Hawke

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

— Eric Balfour

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to…

— Denis Villeneuve

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

— Julie Delpy

I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last…

— Ian Anthony Dale

Directing was liberating and intimidating. It's something I've always wanted to do.

— Dustin Lance Black

I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be…

— Derek Magyar

And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

— Sydney Pollack

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