Director Quote by Takashi Miike

I didn't plan to be a director until I was 35. For years I wanted to do anything but!

— Alexandra Cassavetes

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

— Jay Baruchel

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

— Yash Chopra

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a…

— Ron Howard

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to…

— Judd Apatow

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went…

— Olivier Megaton

I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.

— Frankie Shaw

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just…

— Paul Feig

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

— Steven Spielberg

I just realized that I need to be a director - for two reasons. One, directors were already my heroes at this point. I…

— Quentin Tarantino

You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could be a…

— David Oakes

I wanted to reinvent myself as a director.

— Satish Kaushik