I'm addicted to directing!
Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.
I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.
I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.
Why not directing? There’s no big mystery about it. It’s – well, it’s just having a point of view and – and a certain amount of selection and taste.
I really, really love directing films.
At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.
Casting is 65 percent of directing.
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
I'm always writing, but directing takes priority over everything, unless the acting is a job that lifts that whole brand. If I get a part in a big film with a big director and I was going to direct one of my one films, I would take the former job because that job will only help anything that I then intend to do. I think in the long run, directing is the thing that will outlive everything else. Maybe that and writing.
Real people are what fascinates me, whether it's from an acting point of view or a directing point of view.
Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.
When Cate Blanchett starts directing, it's over for all of us.
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.
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'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.
Opening for Louis C. K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young. So it's like he's sort of a senior and I'm a junior, in terms of the business. He's done so much - from writing on Conan and Chris Rock to writing and directing movies, having his own HBO show, "Lucky Louie," and now having "Louie" on FX.
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.
Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.