Directing's Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Directing's
Directing's Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Directing's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
— Crystal Lowe
It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved.
— Joshua Bell
I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
— Martin Freeman
I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.
— Gina Prince-Bythewood
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
— Sean Penn
Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
— S. Truett Cathy
I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.
— Melissa Joan Hart
I think, obviously, everyone has a lot of favorite movies, but I really for some reason just love Quentin Tarantino's writing and directing style.
— Kodi Smit-McPhee
I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.
— George Clooney
Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
— George Clooney
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
— Tony Scott
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
— Gary Gygax
I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].
— Mathieu Amalric
The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's.
— Charles Martin Smith
That's what I love most about writersthey're such lousy actors. — Vincent H. O'Neil
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.
— Michael Douglas
Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.
— Robin Wright
I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
— Tony Gilroy
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
— Peter Fonda
I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.
— Drew Barrymore
It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.
— Roel Reine
I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.
— James Burrows
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
— Roland Joffe
Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.
— Fethullah Gulen
When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.
— Lauren Cohan
Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.
— Tom Felton
Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."
— Lloyd Kaufman
I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.
— Joe Manganiello
People ask me about that all the time. They say, "Did you ever think of directing?" And I say, "It's completely out of the question."
— Mickey Rourke
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
— Adam Rapp
Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
— Charles S. Dutton
The whole chameleon thing about acting. That's why I'm moving towards directing - it's a much more healthy occupation.
— Andy Serkis
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do.
— George Clooney
I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.
— Julie Taymor
It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.
— David R. Ellis
Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
— Matt Smith
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
— Stanley Tucci
Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.
— Bill Hunter
My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Directing was a great experience, but it's terrifying to have the responsibility of carving up the other actors' performances.
— John Krasinski
Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.
— Morten Tyldum
Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
— Albert Camus
It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.
— Cary Fukunaga
Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.
— Nora Ephron
I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.
— Catherine O'Hara
People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.
— Julianne Moore
The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.
— Denzel Washington
I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
— Stanley Tucci
And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.
— Julie Delpy
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
— Charles S. Dutton
God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.
— James MacDonald
Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.
— Fred Durst
It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.
— Herman Melville
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
— David Morrissey
It's like being the general of an army [directing a film]. You send people out to die.
— Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
— Steve Buscemi
(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.
— Richard Gere
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
— Majandra Delfino
Real people are what fascinates me, whether it's from an acting point of view or a directing point of view.
— Paul Blackthorne
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
— Derek Magyar
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
— Alexander Payne
I do like directing other people's material.
— Brian De Palma
I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
I have a staff of 12 people, so it's easy for them to handle all the management and the day to day at the company while I'm directing.
— Chris Stokes
It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.
— Jenny Agutter
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
— Kathryn Bigelow
Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.
— Ridley Scott
