Conflict Quote by Aaron Rose

It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of…

— Skrillex

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew…

— John Milius

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

— Jonathan Levine

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working…

— Jessica Lange

It would help a lot of directors if they tried a little bit of acting, so they can understand what the process is about.…

— Adrian Dunbar

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

— Gus Van Sant

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily…

— Clint Eastwood

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

— Scott Mechlowicz

So many directors these days direct by design and shoehorn you into things - direction or blocking - that they had in mind previously.…

— Christian Cooke

I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and…

— Bill Condon

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

— Richard Gere