Directing Quotes

• I find directing so incredibly rewarding and challenging and humbling and exciting and engaging. Scenes become challenging. Actors bring out the best of you. Circumstances demand you dig deep.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • Circumstances
  • Challenging
  • Directing

• I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • I Love
  • Head
  • Directing

• The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."

  

  Mark Webber Pulp
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Directing

• Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

  

  Morten Tyldum
  • Language
  • Universal
  • Directing

• I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you make your living selling this thing, which is the way you look, then maybe you do it. But trust me, the minute I'm directing or producing and not starring, I would never even think of it.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Camera
  • Would
  • Surgery

• I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

  

  Isabella Rossellini
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Directing

• I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to be controlling in a lot of ways, but I find myself trying to battle against that, to not be controlling, because that's when great things can come about, beyond how great you think you can be.

  

  Joe Hahn Linkin Park
  • Collaboration
  • Directing
  • Controlling

• I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

  

  Michael Ritchie
  • Interest
  • Directing

• Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!

  

  Brigham Young
  • Children
  • Teaching
  • Behavior

• I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'

  

  Willie Garson
  • Future
  • Explore
  • Directing

• I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Working
  • Keep
  • Commercials

• The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Really
  • Anyone
  • Exercises

• Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.

  

  Daniel Burrus
  • Trying
  • Support
  • Journey

• The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

  

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Real
  • Ideas
  • Directing

• In film, I don't think I'd try directing. Maybe one day, but I'd certainly want to go to film school or something before I tried to do something like that. That would be quite scary.

  

  Amelia Warner
  • School
  • Film
  • Directing

• Directing is a tremendous art.

  

  Steve Guttenberg
  • Art
  • Directing
  • Tremendous

• When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

  

  Jeremy Camp
  • God
  • Doors
  • Directing

• Acting is the most pure fun as far as jobs go, but it can be limiting in terms of freedom of expression. You are never the master of the story, just a part of it. But writing and directing give you the power of the gods.

  

  David Hayter
  • Acting
  • Story
  • Jobs

• Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Mind
  • Story
  • Directing

• The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Directing

• My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Changed
  • Breathe
  • Directing

• With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

  

  Joe Hahn Linkin Park
  • Control
  • Doing
  • Directing

• I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Think
  • Audience
  • Directing

• Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

  

  Paul Greengrass
  • Childhood
  • Loneliness
  • Directing

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