Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
Harrison Ford

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
Campbell Scott

Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
Steve Buscemi

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

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.
Ron Livingston

Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
Ben Stiller

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

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
Anthony Michael Hall

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.
John Crowley

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
Roland Joffe

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

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
Sally Kellerman

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?
Maureen O'Hara

Hugh Wilson made it so real and he took us and it was almost when he was directing it, the way he would do it was funnier than the way we did it. And I just developed a regard for him that was unbelievable.
Bubba Smith

I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.
Richard E. Grant

I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
Patrick Stewart

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.
Terrence Howard

I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
Thomas Haden Church

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
Preston Sturges

I do like directing other people's material.
Brian De Palma