Directing Quote by Otto Preminger

Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

— Otto Preminger

You can do 12 great takes, but if the director is no good, he'll end up picking the wrong one.

— Martin Short

With Virginia on 'A Long Way From Home,' she was directing for the first time. She had full knowledge of what she was doing,…

— Brenda Fricker

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

— Stephen Fry

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want…

— Ophelia Lovibond

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a…

— Sondra Locke

Directing takes a lot of time.

— Jeff Bridges

Shooting a film with seven to eight actors together is complicated sometimes because you have to cover everybody.

— Laurence Fishburne

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

— Penelope Cruz

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

— John Frankenheimer

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

— Amy Adams

I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.

— Jeff Bridges