Quotes About Directing

I love directing, and I will direct myself a few times.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

Given a choice, I prefer directing a play to a film.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

I want to do directing and acting. I can do them at the same time - it's a challenge, but it's my dream.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

Writers are first directors. When directing our own scripts, we would have a better vision and clarity than directing the stories penned by others. I personally think that a writer's job is tough than a director's.

When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.

When you're directing, you look around and you think, everything I see is my responsibility. From the catering being on time to whether the clouds are moving the way I need them to move to whether this actor is giving the performance I want to whether the costumes are what they should be.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

I don't even consider directing Burt. I just say, 'Hey, Burt, the camera's here. Read the joke and let's get onto the next shot.'

It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene through the lens.

Coming out of 'Shrill,' depending on who's directing, they'll let you ad lib sometimes, you can pitch ideas if you have them.

I fell out of love with acting and in love with directing.

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!'

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.

Directing, I just feel comfortable. I know what I want. I know what I want from my crew. I lead by example. I have limitless energy as a director.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.