Directing Quotes

• Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

  

  Evanna Lynch
  • Experience
  • Characters
  • Communicate

• 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

• Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

  

  Ricky Schroder
  • Energy
  • Comfortable
  • Example

• With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.

  

  Stuart Townsend
  • Independent
  • Industry
  • Directing

• When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Process
  • To Be
  • Involved

• Directing is a tremendous art.

  

  Steve Guttenberg
  • Art
  • Directing
  • Tremendous

• I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Write
  • Master
  • Directing

• Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

  

  Denzel Whitaker
  • Vision
  • Ability
  • Directing

• Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Actors
  • Admiration
  • Directing

• I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

  

  Richard Marquand
  • Actors
  • Cameras
  • Directing

• Directing is like putting together a collage.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Together
  • Directing
  • Collage

• I've been writing a lot, I've a few projects I'm trying to finance, I do some acting, I do some directing... Apart from that, if I could get lower than a 10 handicap on my golf game, I'd be thrilled.

  

  Paul Michael Glaser
  • Acting
  • Finance
  • Directing

• I always love directing because it gives me a chance to be with everyone 24/7.

  

  Aline Brosh McKenna
  • Chance
  • Directing
  • Gives

• 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
  • Nice
  • Film
  • Directing

• I love acting and will take all the time to continue to act. But sometimes I'd like to try my hand at directing.

  

  Jordan Gavaris
  • Acting
  • Try
  • Directing

• I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica.'

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Directing
  • Episodes
  • Wrap

• 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
  • English
  • Language
  • Emotions

• Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.

  

  Milana Vayntrub
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Commercial

• Before I start directing a show, I try to spend a few weeks hanging around the set, getting to know the crew and talking to the actors about how they like to work. Who is fussy? Who is left-handed? Who wants to go home early, and who is the perfectionist?

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Home
  • Actors
  • Perfectionist

• 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
  • I Can
  • Production
  • Directing

• Suddenly I was writing a lot of screenplays, and I was no long in New York, so I stopped acting in plays, and it just became too tricky to find a part to play, either in a play or a film that coincided with my schedule writing and or directing.

  

  Michael Cristofer
  • Stopped
  • Became
  • Suddenly

• I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

  

  Hart Bochner
  • World
  • Scene
  • Editing room

• The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

  

  Alex Gansa
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Directing

• Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Fate
  • Manipulation
  • Art Is

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