Directing Gifts

"All right, let's do it again. This time, you're good at acting."

Producer, Director, Egomaniac Chairs.

Directors Chair and Others.

'Cut!' (movie studio director)

"I love my luvvie."

Pipe Dream.

What I'd really like to do, of course, is direct.

A movie director shouting through bullhorn.

'I don't mind playing dead. But what I would really like to do is direct.'

'Will you stick to the script!!!'

"Your motivation is that you're a dog and it's food."

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: All in a Day's Work

Producer, Director and Novelizer.

Hollywood director.

"All right, everybody- time to knock off for lunch."

Director/Action Man toy.

Before they settled on 'action', many directors would start a take with 'Gentlemen, let us commence with our filmmakerly duties, tut-tut.'

'J.B., baby, this is NOT what we meant when we said we wanted you to produce a mini-series.'

'I feel I have a great director's commentary in me.'

Coen Brothers

'Believing any filming experience may help launch acting careers, some even stage their appearances before closed circuit cameras.'

Hollywood producer.

'I'm a former movie star... but all the world's a stage and what I really want to do is direct!'

'A series based on made-up stories with actors following scripts? Preposterous.'

"She has to arouse you, without, of course, actually arousing you."

'But what I'd really like to do is direct.'

Production team.

Alfred Hitchcock

"She has to arouse you, without, of course, actually arousing you."

Larry David

Hollywood Think Tank

"Jackie Chan is great, but John Woo is God."

Film Critic

Two chairs on a film set labeled with "Producer" and "Director" next to rows of chairs labeled "Hanger-on"

"Of course, what I'd really like to do is direct."