Quote by Rajat Jain

Directing is an act of interpretation.

— James Watkins

All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.

— Brenna Yovanoff

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

— David Graeber

I've acted just to get to directing.

— Mel Ferrer

Actually I have to say when I'm acting, I try not to think about directing at all.

— Renee O'Connor

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

— John Malkovich

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

— Colin Quinn

Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do…

— Damian Lewis

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

— Marianne Elliott

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 direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.

— Liev Schreiber

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