Back Quote by Michael Connelly

I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script…

— Curtis Hanson

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

— Steve Buscemi

I directed two films, not very successfully, and after that, I went back to being an actor and a producer.

— Kirk Douglas

When I started working as a writer-director, that's when he became Paul Thomas Anderson and I became Paul W.S. Anderson. Neither of us can…

— Paul W. S. Anderson

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

If you sell the film rights to your book, it doesn't mean there will be a film. I have sold the rights to five…

— Matt Haig

I directed before I was even in television; I directed in the theatre for seven years, so that was my trade anyway. But in…

— Mel Smith

I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.

— Pooja Bhatt

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of what the…

— Anonymous

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the…

— George Lucas

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

— Cameron Crowe

Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over…

— John Badham