Director Job Quotes

The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.

— Everett McGill

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

— Andy Warhol

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

— Park Chan-wook

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

— Sondra Locke

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

— Taylor Hackford

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

— Andre Øvredal

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the…

— Drew Goddard

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and…

— Stanley Kubrick

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to…

— Mick Garris

Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that…

— Thomas Jane

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask…

— Michel Hazanavicius

There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're…

— Brian Helgeland

The director's job is like a teacher's, and I feel a teacher should not have any doubts about the subject.

— P. Vasu

I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so…

— Jason Statham

I'm a director. My job is to think how I want to present it. If I want to say [lines] eight times…

— Tommy Wiseau

As a director, my job is, and always has been, divided into a number of things: dealing with the crew, the money…

— Mike Nichols

The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh.…

— Tyne Daly

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people,…

— James Cameron

I feel that the director's job is special because you're there the whole time while people come and go. You start alone…

— Eva Victor

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone…

— Shane Meadows

As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's…

— Cary Fukunaga

I think so much of a director's job is just to convince you that what you're doing is worthwhile. "Yes, this does…

— Robert Pattinson

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

— Ken Loach

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

— Debbie Allen

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

— Steven Soderbergh

From my earliest days as an actress, I had always been drawn to learning the director's job.

— Sondra Locke

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different…

— Kalki Koechlin

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the…

— Don Bluth