Quotes About Directing

I don't choose something unless I think I have a personal understanding and something I can offer. It's not always thematic. I wanted to do 'The Grinch' because I wanted to direct Jim Carrey creating that kind of comic fantasy character live. I just thought that would be a mind-blowing experience, and it creatively was.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.

Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.

As you saw in chapter 2, in Rotherbart's description of how we develop, adult humans are capable of directing attention, using willpower, and deciding to overcome a fear. If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

Look what I know about directing; is it goes beyond gender. You might see some qualities that are inherently female in the great male directors.

It's been so great being on 'American Horror Story' and 'Scream Queens' because there were some days when I didn't work, and I would spend my time shadowing directors.

I've learned that when I'm directing, I hate when people are always questioning everything and trying to give me directions.

I did direct quite a bit when I was in school, and I directed some television afterwards.

I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.

'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great.

I think I subconsciously knew you needed life experience to direct, and the best films are directed by people who have really lived, with exceptions like Orson Welles, who just burst out of the gate. There are prodigies like that, but for me, personally, I thought I needed life experience.

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

I never expected an offer to direct 'Chandramukhi.' It happened and brought me glory.

I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well.

Being a good actor is incredibly difficult. But the amount of responsibility is so much less on your shoulders than directing.

I would like to direct good actors, and there are good actors who are stars.

I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and then you see those decisions through to the end.

One of the biggest regrets of my whole career was turning down an offer to direct on the first season of 'The Wire.' That would have been so perfect for me.

A soul singer is always singing to their crowd. They're always singing about their woes to you. And I really appreciate that when a singer is making you feel... when they're directing it at me. When they're including me.

Because if a woman can only direct women, and men can only direct men, and Black directors can only direct Black actors, then we are missing out on opening up voices to different perspectives.

You can write anything you want on paper, like blowing up the bridge on the River Kwai, but when you actually have to do that as a director, it's not the same. Ninety percent of directing is not creative - it's putting the theoretical into the practical world.