Quotes About Directing

I have a bunch of concepts and ideas that I want to do but I have also been growing my production company in general and looking to branch out of projects that I am directing and producing.

I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

I was a dramatic kid. I remember, I was very young, and once I knew what I wanted to do I, like, created a theater company, and I would direct, and we would sell lemonade to buy props.

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

I feel like directing is more about who the individual is rather than if they're a man or a woman. It's kind of hard to generalize and group all of us female filmmakers into one group, like we're all going provide you with the same thing, because we're not. We're all individuals.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

Big feature films are another world.

Well I directed a few feature length things for HBO in the late eighties.

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

In terms of directing a feature, I'd want the story to be right - you know, it's a year of your life, and you have to be focused on one thing, so I want it to be a story that I really, really care about and will enjoy making.

I will definitely direct feature films one day.

Let's put it this way: if I were to direct a feature film, I would not be in it.

With directing, you always have three or four things constantly on the go. It's a tough industry and a tough time, particularly if you're doing things a little outside the box or independent features.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I'm not sure I have the knowledge, the intelligence or the sensitivity to direct a 'Love Story' or a 'Fiddler on the Roof.'

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I went to film school to direct.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

I guess I have a fascination with the idea of puppeteering. I think, in a lot of ways, directing is puppeteering. I guess I see a lot of analogies between what puppeteers and filmmakers do.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie.

Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.

My first love is acting, not directing.