Cinema Quote by William Monahan

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

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I…

— Bruce Beresford

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

— Paul Verhoeven

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to…

— Anthony Minghella

When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a director. It's…

— Melanie Laurent

I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.

— Joseph Morgan

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

— Antoine Fuqua

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

— Joe Lycett

I wanted to reinvent myself as a director.

— Satish Kaushik

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't…

— Ray Harryhausen

I was just making movies to make movies. I was so full of anxiety about becoming a filmmaker that I kind of lost the…

— Lee Isaac Chung

Honestly, I always had the silent ambition of being a director.

— Arbaaz Khan