Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think essentially if you are directing a land use and planning organization it is your job to facilitate the growth.

Richard Ayoade

I was directing before I started doing 'The IT Crowd.' It wasn't something that led on after acting I guess. I was sort of doing this stuff before acting.

Allison Mack

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

Kelly Jones

Whether I'm telling stories in songs or if directing is the next step, being a storyteller is what I like doing.

Colin Trevorrow

I was joking with my mom that all Jewish mothers now will want their kids to be filmmakers instead of doctors. Because you can make one film, and suddenly you're directing a 'Jurassic Park' movie.

Matt Damon

The fact that Terry was directing the movie sold it to me,

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

We're looking at a somewhat flat start to the week. Oil prices look set to play a key role in directing equities.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

Alex Graves

Most TV shows are writing the next episode while you're directing the one you're doing, and they're trying to figure out what they're going to do, and they're putting it all together.

Stephen Moyer

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

There I was, for several hours, directing traffic with a parrot on my shoulder. It was a blast!

Joshua Bell

It's been very exciting for me to start directing and conducting, exploring the symphonic repertoire, which I've always loved.

The offense did great in the first half. Larry did a wonderful job of directing things.

I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.

Alex Karpovsky

I like directing myself; I feel like it's one less person to give notes to. There's an efficiency in it. I'm also kind of a control freak. So I like the fact that it gives me more control in the overall picture.

Mark Waters

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

John Franklin

I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live,

Annette Bening

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I am not like Hitchcock, directing the reaction of the public or the audience. I don't like that. I think this is some kind of fascism - 'You need to react like that.' No. No. It's not like this; everyone needs to react as he can.

Andrew McCarthy

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

John Polson

TV directing is fine because you can come in and do a TV show in a relatively short period of time, and that can pay the bills.

Kathryn Bigelow

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Joe Cornish

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

Steve Buscemi

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Stanley Tucci

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

That's why I'm directing this show to the men in the audience. They're the ones who need the instruction,

Adam Smith

Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

Jason Alexander

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

Domhnall Gleeson

I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.

Mike White

I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories.

Neil Simon

Directing is too strong a word for what you do with Nathan, though. He's a joy to work with. And Matthew is a friend.