Directing Quotes

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

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Fate
  • Manipulation
  • Art Is

• 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

• Directing is for pussies.

  

  Eran Creevy
  • Directing

• 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

• What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Actors
  • Learned
  • Experiences

• I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Challenge
  • Find
  • Directing

• I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Money
  • Script
  • I Love It

• I find directing more satisfying.

  

  Michael Shanks
  • Directing
  • Satisfying

• You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Directing

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