Believe Quote by Timothy Simons

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

Of course, even if the directors like my ideas or the designs I do, they may end up changing the story so much, that…

— Mark Walton

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at all.

— Cliff Martinez

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too…

— Dennis Farina

You have to fire yourself as the writer when you direct something you've written. You have to fire yourself, or else you get precious…

— Joel Schumacher

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue…

— B. J. Novak

I write and film history; I don't make it. One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions.…

— Todd Solondz

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and…

— Marge Piercy