Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to…

Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

People expect a lot from a commercial director. It's not right to always expect another 'Viraasat' from me.

— Priyadarshan

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory…

— Billy Wilder

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

— Robbie Coltrane

You have to get the casting right. You have to get the people behind it. Your director might not be the right director for…

— Diego Klattenhoff

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it.…

— David Ayer

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there…

— Blair Underwood

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones…

— Cameron Diaz

I kind of joke with myself that you shouldn't be able to be a creative producer if you weren't a first AD. Because it…

— Bruce Cohen

I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as…

— Yves Behar

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was…

— Miguel

Theatre is an actor's medium while a film is the director's.

— Paresh Rawal

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

— Charlie Hunnam

Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well,…

— Ranbir Kapoor

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda