Battles Quote by Ray Harryhausen

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

— Griffin Dunne

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

— Dino Morea

I'd done some acting and I didn't like being told what to do by the director, the structure of it.

— Joe Lycett

Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts.…

— Robert Redford

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

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

— Sydney Pollack

I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be…

— Sarah Polley

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.

— Alan Parker

I've done all the other kind of production work on films than directing really badly. That is the truth. It's made me a better…

— Azazel Jacobs

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 just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director…

— Jackie Cooper

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it.…

— David Ayer