American Quote by Paul W. S. Anderson

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to…

— Anthony Minghella

I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of…

— Rami Malek

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

— Anthony Minghella

I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of…

— James Gray

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

— Cameron Crowe

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this…

— Al Pacino

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college,…

— Owen Wilson

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.

— Griffin Dunne

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

I never intended to be a director in the first place. I became one by default when during 'Shaheed' I had to direct the…

— Manoj Kumar

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

— Frances McDormand