#directing

Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#dungeon #game #master #storytelling

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two. ↗

— David Fincher

#fact #five #get #going #got

I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. ↗

— Dustin Hoffman

#because #before #did #directing #few

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#commercial #directing #doing #enjoy #i

I find directing more satisfying. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#find #i #more #satisfying

I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential. ↗

— Joe Wright

#being #creating #directing #environment #full

The Director's Role: You are the obstetrician. You are not the parent of this child we call the play. You are present at its birth for clinical reasons, like a doctor or midwife. Your job most of the time is simply to do no harm. When something does go wrong, however, your awareness that something is awry--and your clinical intervention to correct it--can determine whether the child will thrive or suffer, live or die. ↗

— Frank Hauser

#directing #theatre #leadership

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous. ↗

— Stephen King

#directing #musicals #plays #teens #music

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#combination #directing #i #landis #like

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it. ↗

— Debbie Allen

#called #dance #dance floor #directing #down