Quotes About Directing

Yeah, I'm doing some stuff behind the camera. Producing and directing. I feel like my face has been on TV enough in my lifetime that people don't need to see me like that anymore.

I had taken a bit of a sabbatical because I was producing and directing films. But acting has always been my passion and it is something that I will continue to do.

I saw Derek Jacobi play Hamlet when I was 17, and he directed me as Hamlet when I was 27, and I directed him as Claudius in 'Hamlet' when I was 35, and I'm hoping we meet again in some other production of Hamlet before we both toddle off.

I will direct films be it my own productions or outside. It's not like I am here only to direct Salman.

I only direct in self-defense.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.

There are a lot of women who direct in a way that is even more masculine sometimes than men - and that's not a bad thing, either.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

I would like to direct. What goes on behind stage is very interesting.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.

It is my passion to direct movies.

My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

I think every movie changes me and is life changing, especially movies you direct.

I don't direct the plays of others.

I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.