Film directors Quotes

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

— Kathryn Bigelow

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots…

— Stanley Tucci

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

— Ken Adam

Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly.

— Akira Kurosawa

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a…

— Emraan Hashmi

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

— David Hockney

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not…

— Lukas Moodysson

It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director,…

— Mary Harron

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry,…

— Lee Daniels

I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

All I wanted to do was be a professional film director with a body of work, and you're going to make some…

— Michael Caton-Jones

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of…

— George Lucas

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul…

— Ricky Gervais

To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather…

— Woody Allen

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.…

— Danny Boyle

When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I…

— Pedro Almodovar

My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of…

— Eve Hewson

You make films to give people something, to transport them somewhere else, and it doesn't matter if you transport them to a…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do…

— Christopher Nolan

Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even…

— Hunter S. Thompson

There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia…

— Pankaj Mishra

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…

— Vincent Canby

The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently…

— Martin Schulz

“Here’s what I like about God: Trees are crooked, mountains are lumpy, a lot of his creatures are funny-looking, and he made…

— Julia Cameron

I am the best film director in the world.

— Lars von Trier

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

— Ken Loach

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

— Terry Gilliam

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

— Woody Allen

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

— Elia Kazan

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as…

— Trevor Nunn