Juliet Landau Quotes

Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

Directing is much more satisfying to me than acting.

Directing was liberating and intimidating. It's something I've always wanted to do.

When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free.

When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I love the experience of getting to direct because I can have all of the fun of helping shape the show, but I don't have to actually do it, so I don't have to deal with the nerves.

I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.