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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.
I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.
I am choosy about my films, period - whether it's my father directing it or anybody else.
A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.
I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
My dream would be producing, maybe directing - definitely not writing - one feature film.
I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.
There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.
Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.
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.
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.
I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.
To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.
I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.
When I'm acting, I'm a woman but when I am directing, I am an animal because I am very demanding.
Even when I'm not directing, that doesn't stop Owen from having ideas for what I should be doing.
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.
I've literally pitched to every studio and network trying to get directing work. It's really hard.
I've moved into directing as well as acting, and it has taught me never to take casting personally.
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.
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 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.
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.
I stand to learn more working as an actor with really talented people than I do by directing a feature.
I've learned more about directing from five years of television than I could have in ten years of film.
Directing on a 90-day schedule, whether for a TV series or a feature film, it's crazy; it's a marathon.
It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.
The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.