Cult Quote by Alan Cumming

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

I'd never thought of directing as an option for me. I don't know why, because I'm incredibly bossy. I was surprised how collaborative it…

— Trudie Styler

I love collaboration. I love working with people to come up with something better than what I initially thought. With directing, you have to…

— Joe Hahn

I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could…

— Nia Long

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or…

— Janeane Garofalo

The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together…

— Alison Pill

I think directing is a huge responsibility and it's not something where you can just be like, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a go!"…

— Josh Hutcherson

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of…

— Julie Taymor

There are times when you work with directors on set, and things are a bit rudderless, and those can be good directors.

— Grant Heslov

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me…

— Michael B. Jordan

My approach to directing is to not do very much directing. I'm mainly interested in what the creative group individually and together are thinking.

— Alex Garland

Yeah as the director I consider myself to be the coach, and my actors are my players. So I have to show them how…

— Derek Cianfrance