William Friedkin Quotes

I'm not the best filmmaker, but on the sets, it seems like everybody is having fun.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.

Acting is like playing, while directing is really fun, sort of like an orgy.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I've always liked drama; I've always found it really fun, like, I did go to drama club and things like that.

I love it behind the camera as much as I do in front.

Acting is something I've always loved and enjoyed.

I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.

I love actors, and I'm passionate about the creative process of acting and filmmaking.

I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which I think is a cool jump of faith for them. Or proof that they're really stupid. But I don't think so.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

I'm addicted to directing!

I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it.

I didn't want to be a director for hire. It really just took me a long time to learn how to direct and to feel up to the job.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I love directing and that's where I'm headed. That's where my head is at.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting.