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I will not be doing any more sitcoms, unless it's my own or a movie or I'm directing.
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.
I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.
Directing, what little I know, is as much knowing when to step in as when to step out.
I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.
I've been directing more and more the last few years, I find it an enjoyable challenge.
Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.
I am starting to explore directing, maybe in the future in the world of 'White Collar.'
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.
Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun.
I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.
I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.
Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.
Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days.
I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.
My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.
Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
Directing Suriya is a joy. He was my first and last choice for the role of Capt. Gopinath.
I think that women are uniquely suited to the job of directing, and I've seen it firsthand.
As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.
Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.
It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.
I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.
Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.
I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.
I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
I enjoy editing when I'm directing, but when someone else is directing, that's their film to cut.
When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.