Quotes & Sayings About Stage Directing

There is some kind of message..., in Dexter criminal series. Just try to find it and focus. — Deyth Banger

No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last. — Dara Horn

For me, the real goal is to integrate. The thing that I'm most happy with is the fact that I've been able to keep doing all of it - to keep writing, and to keep acting in movies, and to keep acting on the stage, to keep directing plays. I find that they feed each other, and that I learn about acting from directing and I learn about writing from acting. — Ethan Hawke

Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband. — Nicki Minaj

You have to really want and need it before you earn it. — Toba Beta

I don't think restaurants should refuse to serve minority people. They are quite tasty when prepared correctly. — Zach Braff

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me. — Adam Rapp

I'm more lost when I'm not on tour. I'm in a bit of a muddle at nine o'clock - 'Where's the stage?' On tour, there are people directing and supervising you. — Ronnie Wood

When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it. — Christopher Gorham

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'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing. — Elaine Paige

I don't know if people realize how hard I work, because sometimes people ask me for my secret. The truth is that I don't have any secrets apart from the fact that I've been directing theater and film for twenty years and trying at every stage to make my work better. — Lucy Walker

Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means that you've gotten through all the writing stuff, and the producing stuff, and casting, and prep, and all those stages that are seemingly endless. So directing is sort of the reward for all the work you put in before. And then there's the editing, which is another amazing stage of the process. It's incredible the moments you can create. — J.J. Abrams

War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life. Servants of Hood, one and all. — Steven Erikson

I want to be the most terrible thing that's ever happened to you. Can you understand that? I want to be the only nightmare you ever have. — 19

I sort of dreamed about directing before my career as an actor took off. I've directed stage before in so many capacities on tours. I put that together. You have to. Otherwise, it's your statement. It's your voice, and that has to come through. — Justin Timberlake

Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood. — Jack Huston

I attend film school, my background is acting and directing. But the acting does best, I like to work on the stage. — Tommy Wiseau

I was always directing; even back when I started on stage. I was always throwing out ideas. I just love creating stories and for some reason people would listen. — Mike Mayhall