Directing Movies Quotes:

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

- Jordi Molla

topic: Directors, World, Directing Movies

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.

- Neil Strauss

topic: Acting, Band, Directing Movies

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

- Sean Penn

topic: Directing Movies, Directors, Actors

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.

- Jodie Foster

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Directing Movies, Situation, Personal Essays

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.

- Josh Radnor

topic: People, Directing Movies, Helping, Totally In Love

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.

- Nora Ephron

source: "Nora Ephron obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

topic: Writing, Confusion, Directing Movies

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Movie, Funny Life, Gambling, Directing Movies, Film Directors

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

- Kathryn Bigelow

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Movie, Inspiring, Two, Directing Movies, Film Directors

When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

- F. Gary Gray

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Kids, Age, Add, Directing Movies, Raw Talent

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.

- Ted Alexandro

source: "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

topic: Generations, Great Experiences, Young, Directing Movies, Conan

I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

- Stephen Chbosky

topic: Book, Writing, Years, Directing Movies, Centerpieces

Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.

- Jack Huston

topic: Writing, Loving Life, Blood, Directing Movies