Directors Quotes

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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them… — Edmund Burke
It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films… — Terry Pratchett
It's sometimes discouraging to see all of a director's movies, because there's so much repetition. The auteurists took this to be a sign of a… — Pauline Kael
I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two. — Jack Kilby
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director — David Mamet
I am the best film director in the world. — Lars von Trier
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration. — Sidney Blumenthal
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and… — Paul Thomas Anderson
The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover… — Brian De Palma
For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident. — Sidney Lumet
I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And… — Sam Mendes
I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't… — Patricia Highsmith
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but… — Wes Anderson
With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with… — Akira Kurosawa
During the shooting of a scene the directorâ€™s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring concentratedly at the… — Akira Kurosawa
I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors. — Yasujiro Ozu
Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too. — Andy Warhol
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
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed… — Donald Pleasence

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