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When I feel like being a director, I write a novel. -- John Irving
When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director. -- Barkhad Abdi
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. -- Steven Spielberg
I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would. -- Chris Lowell
I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly. -- Bobby Farrelly
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore. -- Dick Powell
I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director. -- Johnny Depp
My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors. -- Matt Reeves
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15. -- James Brolin
I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the lead actor. -- Russell Crowe
The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore. -- Dick Powell
It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary. -- Russell Crowe
There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate. -- Angelina Jolie
I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. -- Spike Lee
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges. -- Ron Howard
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic. -- Natasha Richardson
It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want. -- Paddy Considine
Just being hired by a great director is complimentary. -- Tom Skerritt
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. -- Anthony Minghella
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. -- Kevin Hart
Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage. -- Toni Servillo
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director. -- Mel Smith
Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view. -- Paddy Considine
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. -- Laurie Metcalf
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. -- Charlie Rose
As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project. -- Kim Fields
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life. -- Jason Reitman
Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. -- John Glen
I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You learn something new every time. -- Mark Wahlberg
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. -- Sergei Eisenstein
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something. -- Gary Oldman
Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director. -- Angelina Jolie
One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different. -- Jane Fonda
When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director. -- Kola Boof
I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director. -- Denzel Washington
The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them. -- Robert Benton
Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered. -- Steve Carell
She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director. -- Christopher Hitchens
I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class. -- Art Buchwald
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. -- Moira Johnston
Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity. -- Christophe Lemaire
I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director. -- Julia Stiles
The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't. -- Alan Rickman
Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else. -- Richard Wagner
It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives -- Jane Campion
I think that's the job of a director really - to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being. -- Peter Jackson
From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker. -- Donnie Yen
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! -- Mark Rydell
Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director. -- John Niven
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director. -- J. C. Chandor
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary. -- Sylvia Kristel
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed. -- Kevin Hart
If you want to keep on being relevant as a director, I think you have to embrace the times. And with the times come technologies and formats. -- Alfonso Cuaron
I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me. -- Mike Mills
Empower the people around you, from the janitor to the athletic director. You do that by being sincere, caring about others, and then putting it into practice. -- Sue Gunter
I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film. -- Jim Caviezel
In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun. -- Drew Goddard
Being an actor is great; you chill in your trailer, and they bring you a breakfast burrito and coffee. But as director, you're responsible for every little thing. -- Justin Chon
I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do. -- Gillian Jacobs
The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles. -- Mary Harron
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free. -- Alexander Hamilton

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