Directing Quotes

Directing Quote of the day

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

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

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

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].

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

I really, really love directing films.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

The difference between directing film and directing television is so stark simply because TV is a living breathing organism already when you direct an episode.

I had a bad experience on Ned Kelly, which I'd written the screenplay for. I thought: "Well Jesus, if these are the type of people directing movies I might as well direct one myself!"

I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.

Drumming is like film directing. You build a framework for everyone to create something together.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worse player on the pitch!

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.

If you direct your beliefs and thoughts to always work in your favor, nothing else from the outside would succeed in dethroning you from the throne of your God's given destiny.

you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction?

Though the legs of a football coach are never so active on the field of play during playing time, his mind is the best or worst player on the pitch!