Because Quote by Paul Verhoeven

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

— Antoine Fuqua

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film…

— Park Chan-wook

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

— William Monahan

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

— Sondra Locke

I always wanted to be a director. And I make films that I like.

— Dileesh Pothan

I knew I wanted to be involved with theater or film in any way I could, either as a writer or director or actress.

— Greta Gerwig

I wanted to reinvent myself as a director.

— Satish Kaushik

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I…

— Bruce Beresford

I was drawn to painting and filmmaking because I was interested in communicating visually, which spills over into my tendencies as a writer.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

— Simon Kinberg