Best Director Wisdom

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If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance. — Trevor Nunn
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become… — George Lindsey
My director, Jesus, does not teach me to count my acts, but to do everything for love, to refuse Him nothing, to be pleased when… — Therese of Lisieux
I like working as a director most. — Stephen Chow
I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know… — Robert Wise
If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel? — Jack Welch
It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at least thirty million,… — Richard Leakey
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie… — Cameron Crowe
That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told… — Rachel Weisz
In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus… — Hank Azaria
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a… — Tony Gilroy
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned… — Marcus Borg
My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. — Jelly Roll Morton
Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because… — Andre Bazin
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge… — Sergei Eisenstein
The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. — Ken Loach
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How. — Peter Brook
I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be… — Bill Condon
As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's… — Don Bluth
How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them? — Don Bluth
The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors. — James Cameron
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love. — Margaret Halsey
Its... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it.… — Michael Bay
What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director… — Michael Bay
(When asked what a director does) I help. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

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