Direct Quote by William H. Macy

I think it is best that if you are the writer you just leave the director to it. With the caveat that you state,…

— Steven Knight

Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the…

— William Monahan

Eventually, I think I may end up directing. It would have to be the project where I think that I'm the person to direct…

— James Van Der Beek

I always try to stick to the script because I want to respect the writers, and I want to respect the director. But if…

— Rob Riggle

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script,…

— Daniel Radcliffe

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with…

— Peter Morgan

You have to accept that the moment you hand a script to a director, even if you've written it as an original script, it…

— Victor Levin

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

— Sam Shepard

I would prefer to work for directors who give me the script and written screenplay at the outset.

— R. Madhavan

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

— Ava DuVernay