Directing Quotes

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.
Orson Welles

Perfect, Movie, Mediocre

What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.
Colin Powell

Society, Others, Unhappy

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
Steven Spielberg

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.
Steven Spielberg

Divorce, Heard, Committed

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.
Tom Felton

Life, Writing, Acting

Directing takes a lot of time.
Jeff Bridges

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
William Shatner

Dreams, Time, Pain

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
Jeff Bridges

Art, Everyone, Universe

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
Ang Lee

Writing, Director, Prefer

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
Ang Lee

Fun, Working, Kinds

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.
Demi Lovato

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
Adam Smith

Great, Real, Ambition

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.
Liam Neeson

Real, Become, Looking

I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
Danica McKellar

Love, Done, Acting

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

Process, Involved, Layers

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
Lena Dunham

Love, Different, Suddenly

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

Saying, Again, Last

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.
Norman Lindsay

Art, Mind, Control

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Salma Hayek

Writing, Hell, Acting

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they're also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.
Diablo Cody

Women, Experience, Children

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.
Diablo Cody

Children, Writing, Two

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.
Diablo Cody

Best, Woman, Attention

I don't get nervous when I'm directing a play. It's not like acting.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Play, Acting, Nervous

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Amazing, Yourself, Others

Directing a movie is serious, it's not a joke.
Fred Durst

Serious, Joke, Movie

Directing a film is a lot of work.
Fred Durst

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.
Kyle Chandler

Work, Hard, Again

I intend to do more directing TV.
Bryan Cranston

I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
Sylvester Stallone

Writing, Control, Fault

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.
Alton Brown

Good, Around, Idea

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