Able Quote by Peter Bogdanovich

Directing is a mixture of compromise and perfectionism. When you lose the judgment of which is more important at any particular moment, you're time…

— Danny Boyle

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

— Julie Delpy

You need to see yourself in what you direct, I think - directing is quite self-indulgent from that point of view.

— Marianne Elliott

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.

— Joe Wright

Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain…

— Vince Edwards

I don't want to sound arrogant and say that I know everything about directing and I've got it cracked, but it was just all…

— Dan Mazer

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

— Maximilian Schell

Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit…

— Malik Yoba

With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

— Joe Hahn

I don't know why directing is not something I'm interested in.

— Viola Davis

Directing is quite a nuts-and-bolts thing. It's a mixture of creating an atmosphere in which actors can feel safe enough to be dangerous.

— Phyllida Lloyd

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors,…

— Abraham Polonsky