Awesome Quote by Mike Birbiglia

Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do…

— Ben Affleck

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a…

— Slash

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

— Sydney Pollack

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a…

— Luca Guadagnino

Directing is like cooking, it's like cuisine. You cannot make a great dish with bad ingredients. I have great actors, and I'm putting them…

— Louis Leterrier

Directing a film is a lot of work.

— Fred Durst

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately…

— Marc Forster

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about…

— Dee Rees

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to…

— J. J. Abrams

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

— Jason Alexander

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't…

— Julie Delpy