What is better to pursue in the Film industry Screenwriting or Directing?

I am a film major and am being given the option to focus on directing or screenwriting although I am not sure on what to do. What would you guys do?|||The issue is not if you're a people person or a loner. There are plenty of Directors I know who are very much not the life of the party and they could care less about your feelings. They care about getting the job done and everybody around them doing their jobs. So that the story can be told. Everything else is secondary.





Writer / Director as a hyphenate is pretty common, why? Mostly it's because you have clarity of vision, if you wrote it and you're bringing it to life onscreen in a style that is yours and yours alone, it's the only time I'll agree with the Auteur stamp. Or as we all know it, the, "Film by," stamp.





Now the main difference is commitment. When I write a screenplay, be it for hire or on spec, I know that it's going to take up a finite part of my life. It may be months in the case of a hire or years in the case of a spec but in the end it's going to leave my hands and take on a life of its own. The baby is going to be delivered by other hands.





However if you're going to be a director or more specifically a director who is going to produce his own material, you're going to be on that project for possibly years to get it produced and then more months in post, possibly reshoots, etc. It can be a long drawn out process.





If you're being given an option to focus on one over the other, I'd lean towards Directing. You have more power as a director and if you have a strong background in writing, this will only help your craft and when you posses enough power, you can write, produce and direct your own script with a level of autonomy you would not have as just a screenwriter.





I'm a professional screenwriter with Film and TV credits.|||I would do whichever you're more skilled at and which makes you the happiest. Weigh your options between those two. Are you good at handling stress? Can you successfully manage a large group of people and deliver a product with a strict budget and deadline? Can you multi-task and balance multiple projects/details at the same time? If your answer was no to these, then I would suggest going with screenwriting, directing can be fun but very very stressful and somewhat overwhelming. Also, we need better plot-lines than the crap the industry is turning out.|||Well, it really depends on whether you're a "people person" or a "loner."





If you're a "people person" always surrounded by friends, the life of the party, know hundreds of people and stay in touch with all of them, etc., etc., etc., then become a director.





But, if you're a lone wolf, shy, retiring, prefer not to make a fuss, would rather be alone with a good book, etc., etc., etc., become a screenwriter.





Good luck!...|||Are you better at working alone, or do you want to be a babysitter?





Writing is a solitary vocation.





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Cheers!|||Screenwriting. We need more quality stories. We've got plenty of people waiting in the wings to direct.