Directing Films Quotes

#1. I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

Paddy Considine

#2. I really, really love directing films.

John Frankenheimer

#3. There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

Steven Van Zandt

#4. I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

Joseph Kosinski

#5. I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room.

Bruce Beresford

#6. It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

Guy Ritchie

#7. I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.

Yuen Woo-ping

#8. I used to dream about presenting a comedy show and also about directing films.

Joe Cornish

#9. When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.

Harmony Korine

#10. Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

Atom Egoyan

#11. I have been directing and involved in producing and the creating of films for quite a while as well as acting. I always think in terms of what the director needs, and not just for this scene but for the film.

George Clooney

#12. I'm so grateful to be living doing what I love. Whether it's acting in Films or TV shows or writing and directing my own projects.

Kyle Cassie

#13. I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor. After that, work begat work. I got into directing music videos and commercials.

Thomas Schlamme

#14. I'm interested in films, in directing.

Benjamin Millepied

#15. I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

Harold Ramis

#16. I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

Lee Daniels

#17. I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Mackenzie Astin

#18. There's a para-phrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else." I've been very lucky ... before I start insulting the profession of directing, but I think a good director is everything and a bad director really is nothing at all.

Colin Firth

#19. 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.

Cary Fukunaga

#20. Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Christopher McQuarrie

#21. Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

Sydney Pollack

#22. I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.

Karan Johar

#23. Even after forty years of directing, shooting and editing films, when I collaborate with a male partner, people still perceive the man as the primary filmmaker.

Chris Hegedus

#24. I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it.

Claudia Christian

#25. I directed three films and each time [I act] I hope it's the last time so I have time to do my film [directing].

Mathieu Amalric

#26. Curiously, directing my own films have made me more tolerant and patient. I've always been an extremely impatient actor. Waiting around drove me nuts. But now I'm much more sympathetic to a director's struggle.

Robert Redford

#27. I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.

Gavin Hood

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

Bryan Singer

#29. 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.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

#30. Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

David Dastmalchian

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

Andy Serkis

#32. Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

Morris Chestnut