Quotes About Experience

It's a treat and daunting to be directing someone like Judi Dench, who's made more films than I'll ever make in my lifetime.

Directing adults is not the same kind of collaboration as you have with a teenager or kid.

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience.

I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

It's hard to get material. I haven't made a movie before. I have two episodes of television that I think have come in really great, but it's really hard to get directing work.

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

I used to get defensive when people asked me, 'Is it the control that you like about directing?' I used to say, 'No!' But now I'm older, I say, 'Yeah, it absolutely is!'

I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

I'm not big on reading directions. I can't do that. I'm just not from that world.

Life begins at 40. I could attempt writing. Life is taking me into different directions.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

I haven't worked with a director who is a crazy person at all.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.