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Quotes About Direction

Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.
~ John Krasinski
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.
~ John Patrick Shanley
I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.
~ Fred Durst
I'm currently trying to direct my own material.
~ Tom Skerritt
I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.
~ Gedde Watanabe
I'd love to direct more.
~ David Duchovny
By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.
~ Michael Mann
I want to direct. Definitely a goal of mine.
~ Corey Haim
I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
~ Madeline Zima
Would I like to direct? Maybe one day.
~ Orlando Bloom
Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like.
~ J. J. Abrams
For me, in my life, dyslexia has been a little bit of a blessing. It helped me find my strength and directed me towards what I really wanted to do.
~ Darcey Bussell
My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
~ John Wells
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
~ Harmony Korine
It is always a pleasure to be directed by an actor because they know the scene from the actor's perspective, too. That's an advantage.
~ Naseeruddin Shah
Of all the films that I have directed, I think 'Lootera' is the one that could have been better.
~ Vikramaditya Motwane
I'm happy directing films. On television, the direction takes your entire life away.
~ Farah Khan
When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
~ Cate Blanchett
Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
~ Ben Stiller
I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.
~ John Lasseter
Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.
~ Jason Bateman
I think eventually I'd love to get into directing.
~ Hannah Simone
There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.
~ Bill Pullman
There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.
~ Emma Kenney