Young Quote by Rob Reiner

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else…

— Ethan Hawke

Directing is something I always wanted to do. I started when I was 13 directing scenes in high school and then plays in college…

— David Schwimmer

Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.

— Eric Balfour

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

— Michael Mann

Directing was rarely a thought in my head growing up. Especially not when I first began acting or working on my first professional sets.

— Noah Centineo

Somehow I had a lot of the skills that I didn't know were required for directing. I didn't realize that my life had been…

— Marielle Heller

The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain…

— Mark Webber

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

— Martin Donovan

Directing is literally what I've always wanted to do, ever since I was a kid. So I love the career I've built behind the…

— Fred Savage

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting…

— David Suchet

The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write…

— Charles Martin Smith

I think if more women had been directing when I was a child, I probably would have gone for directing first. But, as a…

— Sondra Locke