Cinema Quote by Alex Garland

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't…

— Udo Kier

As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and…

— Cary Fukunaga

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the…

— Jodie Foster

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I…

— John Frankenheimer

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

— Paul Bettany

I think directing is part play, part work, not just all work, because I think you always have to play. I think that's ultimately…

— Marc Forster

Sometimes I feel indie directors are in the game so they can make a film to get hired to do a big film -…

— John Cho

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to…

— J. J. Abrams

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

— James Wan

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

— Sydney Pollack

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

Directing a film is a lot of work.

— Fred Durst