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I've literally pitched to every studio and network trying to get directing work. It's really hard.
Directing talent is very nebulous. You know, it's not in front of you like an actor's performance.
I think people forget that a lot of directing is just real management of the size of a production.
What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.
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.
'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.
I like to express myself fully with my body, with my language, with my voice, and through directing.
If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.
I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.
I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.
I personally don't prefer acting and directing in something because I don't have the same objectivity.
I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.
I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.
I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.
Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
I want to do directing and acting. I can do them at the same time - it's a challenge, but it's my dream.
The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.
It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.
I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.
Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.
That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.
Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.
I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.
Acting is certainly my first love, but writing and directing has been on the 'to do' list for a long time.
I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
Directing a film requires a different set of skills. It is a difficult job, and I am happy being an actor.
I keep saying this, but the most important part of directing is casting, and the rest of it is pretty easy.
Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.
Whether I'm acting, writing, or directing, I want to tell the truth about human beings, especially my folk.
My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.
Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.
Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.
I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.
I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.
I loved teaching and directing choral activities at BYU, but nothing surpasses working with the MTC musicians.
You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.
I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.