I feel scenes of sexual intimacy are ruined if the director is embarrassed. — Aparna Sen Copy Share Image
Theatre is like an actor's nectar, like how cinema is a director's medium. — Ali Fazal Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage,… — Louis Gossett, Jr Copy Share Image
Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director. — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
I never had a mentor. God, it would have been nice, but I just didn't. I look up to Jane Campion. And… — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie. — David Fincher Copy Share Image
The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,'… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have… — David Leitch Copy Share Image
I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he… — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me… — Jeffrey Wright Copy Share Image
The big trick is just to get to a point where we're just considered DPs, and we're not 'female DPs.' When you… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
The main idea of making a movie is to provide entertainment. But as a director, I also say what I want to… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror;… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I vividly remember my first interaction with Sir Richard Attenborough, I was in my final year at NSD (National School of Drama)… — Alok Nath Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when actors reach out to their characters, they're nowhere in sight. They need to find something inside of them. And then… — David Nutter Copy Share Image
It does not feel any different being directed by a first-timer as long as I am convinced that the director is passionate… — Farhan Akhtar Copy Share Image
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm the best-looking actress around. I'm not Katrina Kaif; she is stunningly beautiful. There are some roles that might… — Anushka Sharma Copy Share Image
To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
When I was on 'Xena,' I remember the sound guy and the director at some point being like, you have to make… — Zoe Bell Copy Share Image
It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I've admired. — Jim Sarbh Copy Share Image
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
