Directing Quotes
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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 -
I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.
Eugenio Derbez
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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 -
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
Sean Penn -
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
Steven Spielberg -
Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.
Matt Smith Poison -
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 -
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
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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 -
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
Nicholas Jarecki -
My directing style has changed over the years. I allow things to breathe a lot more.
Scott Ellis -
I've been clawing my way to directing since I was a kid.
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.
Ethan Hawke -
It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others.
Eve Ensler
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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 -
Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.
Eric Stoltz -
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 -
I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'
Willie Garson -
I always love directing because it gives me a chance to be with everyone 24/7.
Aline Brosh McKenna -
That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
Tom Hanks
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You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.
Scott Eastwood -
Directing is like putting together a collage.
Ethan Hawke -
The script of Regression wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro Amenabar and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.
Ethan Hawke -
I've done all the other kind of production work on films than directing really badly. That is the truth. It's made me a better director because I feel like directing is the only thing I can really do.
Azazel Jacobs