Director Quotes

1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. — George Cukor
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a… — John Patrick Shanley
Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff. — Philip Kaufman
I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to see what a… — Penny Marshall
How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted to write this… — Jennifer Lawrence
I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us -… — Morgan Freeman
I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was. — Jackie Cooper
For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they didn't… — Jane Campion
A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the… — John Frankenheimer
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the… — John Frankenheimer
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy… — John Frankenheimer
I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without… — John Frankenheimer
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has. — John Frankenheimer
The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. — John Frankenheimer
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized. — John Frankenheimer
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the… — Manny Farber
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly… — Manny Farber
The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day… — Paul Feig
What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that they… — Paul Feig
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge… — Peter Fonda
I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the… — Bryce Dallas Howard
When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building… — Robert M. Gates
I started as a director and just fell upon acting. — Danny Huston
A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could… — Katherine Helmond
Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it… — Katherine Helmond

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