Being Quote by Mike Mills

Manchester Youth theater, then the National Student Theater Company, and later, my degree course, all helped form my love of telling stories and directing.

— Justin Chadwick

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

— Tony Gilroy

I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about directing is…

— Charlie Kaufman

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

— Ang Lee

I love acting, but directing and writing have always been just as important. I started to write so many things when I was even…

— Melanie Laurent

Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before…

— Craig Zobel

I see myself directing, writing, doing my own TV shows and movies.

— Marsai Martin

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot.

— Adam Rapp

Directing my own writing, I see that I talk way too much, and everything can happen much sooner, with much less said about it.

— Christopher McQuarrie

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

— Marti Noxon

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me…

— Adam Rapp

I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.

— Jonah Hill