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I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

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It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't. ↗

— Guy Ritchie

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I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director. ↗

— Michael Ritchie

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Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing. ↗

— Tim Robbins

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I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships. ↗

— William Baldwin

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Casting is 65 percent of directing. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

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For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was. ↗

— Peter Jackson

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Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie. ↗