Depends Quote by William Monahan

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have…

— 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

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 think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of our scripts…

— Christopher Markus

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

I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I've worked with, the scripts have not been…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

— Walter Hill

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

— Ang Lee

Whatever you do, whatever you come up with, whatever you decide on, you can go with it, and if the director or the execs,…

— IronE Singleton

The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as…

— Drew Goddard

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

— Steve Antin

In my career, I've said 'no' many times. I am often offered to direct a film from someone else's screenplay.

— Alice Rohrwacher