The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director. — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast. — Yvonne Strahovski Copy Share Image
I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. — Park Chan-wook Copy Share Image
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. — Phil Ramone 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
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
Working with film directors helps me grow, but nothing like the incremental jumps I make onstage. — Scott Glenn 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia… — Pankaj Mishra 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
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
The vast majority of people support the idea of an enlightened, modern union of countries demonstrating solidarity. Film director Wim Wenders recently… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of… — Eve Hewson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame. — Jeff Wall Copy Share Image
I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. — Park Chan-wook 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
Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do. — Essie Davis Copy Share Image