Cinema Quote by Andre Øvredal

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

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

— Peter Jackson

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

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they…

— Christian Bale

I think 'director' is a very broad term. I like to think of myself as the head collaborator, not the director, because I think,…

— Rocky Carroll

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

— Shirley Knight

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and…

— Rebecca Miller

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who…

— Roman Coppola

The relationship between director and subject can become very intense. It's a bit like therapy, with lots of transferences going on. It's easy to…

— Kevin Macdonald

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people.…

— Catherine Hardwicke