My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
All my directors have tried to draw the best out of me at that point of time. — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary. — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera. — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four. — Ernst Lubitsch Copy Share Image
I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie. — Hal Needham Copy Share Image
We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us. — Gia Coppola Copy Share Image
I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film. — James Wan Copy Share Image
Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences… — Brit Marling Copy Share Image
An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very… — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
There are two parts of me. There's the really critical, film-nerd part of me that loves that, and then there's the part… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
A lot of these roles that I feel like I've had some sort of impact, or that have had an effect on… — Elias Koteas Copy Share Image
If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case… — Jonathan M. Goldstein Copy Share Image
It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference… — Daniel Simon Copy Share Image
Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
