I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain.
Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also, directing a show or movie lasts a few months at most, parenting lasts for decades.
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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!"
There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.
I'll be directing some more 'Private Practice' episodes when we wrap 'Caprica. '
After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.
Casting is 65 percent of directing.
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.
You understand what good directing is, you can identify it pretty easily.
One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself.
With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.
I know that Madonna is not a first-time filmmaker, but I have worked with a lot of first time filmmakers and I have worked with a lot of inexperienced film directors so that never has particularly worried me - I find it quite exciting - but I have never worked with a director who has had so little experience of directing who was so prepared.
And I realized that directing actors is really important because that's what ends up on screen.
Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.
I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.