Top 1200 Directing Movies Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

I definitely want to do other things outside of acting like producing, directing.

I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.

Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.

I have a lot of ideas for videos, and I want to pursue directing. This is one of the goals I have always had.

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

As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.

I always love directing because it gives me a chance to be with everyone 24/7.

The things that I'm interested in directing are fiction, because then you're not married to a particular reality.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

I like acting better than anything else, but, you know, directing's good.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Directing Suriya is a joy. He was my first and last choice for the role of Capt. Gopinath.

Sean's a better person when he's directing. He becomes a queen when he's an actor. And he's so unhappy when he's acting.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.

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.

Analyses of the movie marketplace points to an interesting phenomenon: High-profile movies are continuing to do well year-to-year in the U.S. and overseas - this past summer, for example, the top 10 movies registered at the same level as in '04.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

It was always a dream as I was growing up. I would watch movies, mostly American movies, and be so engrossed in those stories, all I wanted to do was be there. I wanted to be part of that romance or that fantasy or be that warrior or that struggling soul who finally makes it good.

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

I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'

My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.

I think this is a trait that runs throughout the queer community, the obsession with the hyper-feminine female villains. And we see it in Disney movies and in movies like 'Death Becomes Her,' and in characters like Poison Ivy and Catwoman.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

Of course you're nervous, but we're really excited to be able to share what we're going to share. And it's cool, because what we're going to be doing, I think for fans especially, we think is really cool, because part of the process that most people don't ever get to see [is] that before these movies are movies starring photo-real apes, they're movies starring the image of Andy Serkis and the other actors, who are playing apes.

Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'

There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

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

It's always fun to do action and explosion, but I really enjoyed directing the emotion of the actors.

The idea of directing my own movie is definitely more challenging than choreography.

I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.

Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.

I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.

I would love to make a film, because storytelling happens only in movies. I would explore relationships in my movies. Maybe, the journey of a child from a broken home, or a relationship between a single father and his kids.

I like happy endings in movies. I think life has a happy ending. When it's all said and done, it's all something worthwhile, and I want my movies to reflect that. There are enough things to be sad about. When you pop in a movie, let the message be one that's one of hope.

No power on earth can ever get me back to directing a commercial film.

As television is learning some of the movies' great tricks, movies are taking what's good from TV. Maybe it will all become one big thing, with smart, talented people who love a thing, helping each other be better.

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

When I audition for something, I don't even want to think about who the other actors are in it, who's directing it.