Coal Quote by Peter Jackson

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

— Eugenio Derbez

Directing is a very exhausting and painful experience. I have seen that pain and know what it can do to you.

— Samuthirakani

Directing, what little I know, is as much knowing when to step in as when to step out.

— Robert Lorenz

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

— Marianne Elliott

When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

— Cate Blanchett

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again.…

— Dexter Fletcher

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

— Bill Pullman

When I'm directing I'm working from 100% of my brain, but when I'm acting I'm working from my heart.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

— John Slattery

If someone, a director, tries to tell me the way to do something, I'm not good at adapting. I need time to go away…

— Anne Reid

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all…

— Denzel Washington