A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a… — Emraan Hashmi Copy Share Image
I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not… — Lukas Moodysson Copy Share Image
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
When you make a film and it wins some award at a very select, very difficult festival such as Cannes, it's good… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity,… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Even though I've mostly done movies, TV has developed in such a wonderful way over the past few years in the sense… — Thekla Reuten Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because… — Lee Yoon-ki Copy Share Image
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of… — Eve Hewson Copy Share Image
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking. — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them. — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director,… — Mary Harron Copy Share Image
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry,… — Lee Daniels Copy Share Image
I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was be a professional film director with a body of work, and you're going to make some… — Michael Caton-Jones Copy Share Image
