Beach Quote by Al Pacino

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every…

— Paul Feig

A director is the captain of the ship; he gets the vision of the film much before anyone else can. While I want to…

— Koel Mallick

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as…

— John Cena

When you think about being a director, you think about writing stories, putting the camera in interesting places and directing the actors to get…

— Cary Fukunaga

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're…

— Jonah Hill

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of…

— John Carpenter

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it…

— Todd Phillips

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell…

— James Cameron

When I do a film, I follow the director.

— Rooney Mara

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and…

— James Franco

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even…

— Guy Pearce

As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to your camera…

— Eric Balfour