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I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway. Hart Bochner

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I guess because I'm so young, I m not sure of what lies ahead for me. I'm more into going the route of producing and directing. I just made a little short film. I'm more excited about going the route of doing a Drew Barrymore or... what's the one from 'Star Wars?' Heather Morris

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I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors. Heber J. Grant

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When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making. Henry Selick

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Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also written a script about the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This will make me sound like a female Kenneth Branagh, but I can't think of anything nicer than directing myself from a script I wrote. Honeysuckle Weeks

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Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every level - emotional and practical and technical. It calls up on such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. I just love the whole process. Hugh Laurie

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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing. Illeana Douglas

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I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing. Irvine Welsh

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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

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I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium. James Franco

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor. James Franco

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I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film. James Gray

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I don't see a big difference between the job of directing a low-budget movie and the job of directing a big-budget movie. James Gunn

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Directing is an act of interpretation. James Watkins

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I still don't know much about directing a movie. Jason Alexander

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If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that. Jason Alexander

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Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that. Jason Alexander

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The directing is something that is incredibly satisfying to me and challenging to me because it's asking me to draw on everything I've been able to absorb over all these years of acting and having all this set experience. Jason Bateman

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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. Jason Priestley

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That's what interests me about film: directing. Jason Robards

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