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
As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking. — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them. — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
Human beings share the same common problems. A film can only be understood if it depicts these properly. — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
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
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'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
When I was growing up in the '50s, I had never heard of a "woman film director," so I did not consider… — Chris Hegedus 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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a… — Emraan Hashmi 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 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
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
