Former “Friends” star Courteney Cox turned to filmmaker David Fincher to help her make her directorial debut.

The actress has directed a short film “The Monday Before Thanksgiving”, which premiered at the Los Angeles Shorts Fest 09 Friday, reported imdb.com.

Cox admits she is hoping to eventually quit acting to focus on directing movies full time and she has been taking advice from Fincher, the brains behind “Seven”, “Fight Club” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”.

“I would love to direct more, it’s perfect for my personality. I just like doing it, I think it’s great,” said the actress.

“I actually went to dinner with him (Fincher) and I said, ‘David I need help’, and we sat down and he gave me four hours of his time. He gave me some guidelines and thoughts and it really helped,” she added.

Courteney Cox has admitted she wouldn’t like to direct an episode of Friends. The actress made her directorial debut in Hollywood, with her short film The Monday Before Thanksgiving being screened at the LA Shorts Fest 09. But she said she saw herself directing “features or movies-of-the-week rather than episodic TV”. She added: “I would love to direct more, it’s perfect for my personality. I just like doing it, I think it’s great.”

Courteney said working with people she knew and trusted on the film had been a huge advantage as a director. “I had the crew that I was working with on Dirt, so it was perfect,” she said. But the actress admitted she’d had some rather impressive tips on how to approach her first shoot from Fight Club director David Fincher. “I actually went to dinner with him and I said ‘David I need help’ and we sat down and he gave me four hours of his time. He gave me some guidelines and thoughts and it really helped,” she explained.

We all knew this was gonna happen.

Along with Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox starred in one of the most popular ensemble TV comedies of all time. It’s inevitable that at least one of her former Friends co-stars will eventually show up on her new ABC comedy, Cougar Town, for a guest spot. Even show creator Bill Lawrence knows that this is something the TV Gods demand.

“You and I both know that we’ll do that eventually,” Lawrence told EW‘s Michael Ausiello about the possibility.

But don’t expect to see any of Cox’s old friends visiting Cougar Town any time soon. ABC is set on selling the show’s star and not potential guest actors this fall, Lawrence said.

Former cast members reuniting on new shows is nothing new. We’ll see it again this fall when the entire cast of Seinfeld reunites for an arc on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Cox and Kudrow recently shared the screen together in an episode of Kudrow’s online comedy Web Therapy. It was the first time the two worked on something together since Friends ended in 2004, and it was pretty darn funny.

Which former Friends star would you most like to see appear in Cougar Town? This might be an unpopular choice, but I’d love to see Matt LeBlanc enter a world scripted by Bill Lawrence, the creator of Scrubs. Something tells me marvelous things could happen with that.

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Personally I’d love to see Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry in the show. Comment below and let us know who you’d like to see..