Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.


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I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.
DAVID LABRAVA
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CURTIS WEEKS
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
WALTER DEAN MYERS
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TOM FELTON
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JOHN PETERS
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BARKHAD ABDI
We want Dylan! We want Dylan!
BRUCE JACKSON
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AARON RUELL
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DAN FOGLER
I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
TED SHACKELFORD
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OLIVIA HOLT
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MATTHEW GRAY GUBLER
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
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CATHERINE TATE
If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
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REGGIE BUSH
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ALAN ALDA
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never be...
JENNIFER JASON LEIGH
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HALEY JOEL OSMENT
I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
KARA HAYWARD
Dylan made it pretty clear he didn't want to do all that other stuff,
JOAN BAEZ
Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA
I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing.
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AVA DUVERNAY
There is at least one way to be invisible: Stay behind the camera.
OCTAV DRUTA
We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER
Ques eso? Queso?
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I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I ...
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T.H. WHITE
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
DENZEL WASHINGTON
I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
SALLY PEARSON
I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
NATE RUESS
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY
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TOM HOOPER
I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
BRYAN ADAMS
I love to direct! I get really jazzed by directing, but directing is not the same kind of personal e...
ALAN BALL
All I can do is be me, whatever that is. Bob Dylan
ALM HLGH
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As you explore new opportunities and new directions, consider this:
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I'm used to it. I'm used to kind of getting shoved in the back row behind the hitters. I like it. I ...
ABBY ARLEDGE
If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.
ELLEN MUTH
There are two types of people in the world those who like to be behind the camera and those that wan...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON
When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER
I took all my TV experience and what I learned about - by writing and directing and bringing a movie...
JILL SOLOWAY
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C.
After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved...
GILLIAN ANDERSON
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, b...
UZO ADUBA
My departure from Penn State was very painful. I struggled with whether I should just walk away and ...
JENNIFER HARRIS
I'm concerned that we do what the families want. I don't think there's any critical motivation behin...
BOB WALLACE
anything else?
ANYTHING
You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.
BETTY CARTER
You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do
BETTY CARTER
Directing has only increased my admiration and respect for what it is that actors do.
ERIC STOLTZ
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DAVID MORSE
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt...
MIKE WHITE
Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is expl...
CAROLYN CHUTE
Anything that's got Stephan Elliott directing it is going to be interesting, to say the least.
BILL HUNTER
For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can co...
PAWAN KALYAN
I cannot continue to live a life I am not born to live! I cannot continue to exert my full strength ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and see...
EDDIE REDMAYNE
Penn is the brains behind this event. On behalf of my brothers, and all of the kids in the program, ...
GINA GORDON
I don't want it to be 'Oh, that's the one-shot movie,' ... I don't want to show my directing. I want...
LOUIS LETERRIER
Anything is possible, it's just a matter of what you want to do to get there.
GARY CHEVALIER
Anything I do, I want to do it well.
J. COLE
Making poetry with a camera - that's the essence of what I do.
DENIS VILLENEUVE
Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
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I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. W...
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If I'm directing something that is off a movie, I won't see the movie because I don't want to copy i...
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When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS...
We don't want to leave munitions behind, ... We want to know what is there.
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When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing st...
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In planning anything, the best place to begin is at the end. What outcome do you want? How do you wa...
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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that ...
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I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effe...
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I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even b...
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I do like directing other people's material.
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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; but when I prevent you fr...
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to...
WILLIAM PENN
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unles...
WILLIAM PENN
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
WILLIAM PENN
She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
WILLIAM PENN
Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live w...
WILLIAM PENN
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman w...
WILLIAM PENN
A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him
WILLIAM PENN
When 9/11 hit, the second thing I said to myself was, 'This really is what religious people do.&...
PENN JILLETTE
Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.
PENN JILLETTE
I think one of the things about Donald Trump that's interesting is he lives in a rarified atmosp...
PENN JILLETTE
I'm a big fan of gospel music, and you cannot be a fan of rock and roll, you cannot be a fan of ...
PENN JILLETTE
If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.
WILLIAM PENN
They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice
WILLIAM PENN
I love acting, truly my favorite people are actors.
SEAN PENN
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memo...
PENN JILLETTE
I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.
PENN JILLETTE
America was founded on Christians not trusting each other, and they sometimes seemed more willing to...
PENN JILLETTE
'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that every...
PENN JILLETTE
To delay justice, is injustice.
WILLIAM PENN
Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.
PENN JILLETTE
As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.
WILLIAM PENN
If there be three distinct and separate Persons, then three distinct and separate Substances. . . . ...
WILLIAM PENN
Equivocation is half-way to lying, and lying the whole way to hell
WILLIAM PENN
Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is th...
WILLIAM PENN
The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the exi...
PENN JILLETTE
The only difference between Obama and Bush is that Obama is killing more people. He’s about double...
PENN JILLETTE
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird ki...
PENN JILLETTE
I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week pr...
PENN JILLETTE
I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same col...
PENN JILLETTE
I am a Justin Timberlake fan.
SEAN PENN