He also spent several years developing The Game (1997), but opted instead to direct his own original screenplay for Breakdown.

John Cassavetes did not originally intend to direct his screenplay; he planned merely to sell the story to Columbia Pictures.

And he is set on directing his own screenplay for the producer David Lynch.

In 2000, Benedict wrote and directed his first screenplay, Cahoots.

In 2009 Newman won the opportunity to direct his own short screenplay, "War School", which he had written in a competition run by Ctrl.

He was persuaded to direct his own screenplay.

Mr. Bromell knew he wanted to direct his screenplay from the outset.

By the spring of 1987, when "Punchline" went into production, he had directed his original screenplay of "Lucas" to critical, although not box-office, success.

Tollin returned in 2002 to direct Gatins's second screenplay, a dramedy called Hardball.

After Romancing, the director suddenly had the clout to direct his time-traveling screenplay, which was titled Back to the Future.