A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he… — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage. — Scott Glenn Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know… — Anna Karina Copy Share Image
I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can… — Sergei Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Most Chinese filmmakers grew up watching television; they watched films on television, not in cinemas. The scope of their vision is not… — Gordon Chan Copy Share Image
For me, architects and film directors operate similarly. They are practical. As an architect, you know what you want in the conception… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul Copy Share Image
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human… — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do. — Essie Davis Copy Share Image
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming… — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what?… — Lloyd Kaufman Copy Share Image
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because… — Lee Yoon-ki Copy Share Image
Even though I've mostly done movies, TV has developed in such a wonderful way over the past few years in the sense… — Thekla Reuten Copy Share Image
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director.… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
When you make a film and it wins some award at a very select, very difficult festival such as Cannes, it's good… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity,… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the… — D. W. Griffith Copy Share Image
Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I… — John Waters Copy Share Image
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