Directing Quote by Otto Preminger

Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.

— Otto Preminger

I'd done about 10 movies before I decided I wanted to make acting the main thrust of my career.

— Jeff Bridges

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

— Eric Stoltz

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

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

— John Frankenheimer

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

— Jason Alexander

In my career, I have made the right choices, but somehow, as an actress, I wish I had done more films.

— Deepti Naval

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

— Rob Reiner

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

— Martin Short

Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent"…

— Catherine Hardwicke

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them…

— Gary Oldman