Cinema Quote by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

— Frances McDormand

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any…

— Sergei Eisenstein

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a cartoon writer.…

— Jesus Franco

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

— Sharmila Tagore

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

— Clive Owen

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It…

— Corbin Bernsen

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

— Melanie Laurent

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter