Directors Quotes

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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. — Truman Capote
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette? — Federico Fellini
You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern. — Ann Macbeth
Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again,… — Billy Wilder
In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods. — Roger Ebert
A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's. — Hugh Jackman
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different. — Marion Cotillard
I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm. — Bernard Hinault
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change… — Jared Leto
When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds… — Jafar Panahi
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. — Fanny Brice
You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. — Clint Eastwood
My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. — David Lean
The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor… — Chuck Palahniuk
I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly. — Bobby Farrelly
A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself. — Francis Ford Coppola
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully… — Hans Zimmer
I think all directors should be animators... — Steven Spielberg
You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make a great movie.… — Nicole Kidman
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980. — Jacques Rivette
A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point to really engage… — Will Estes
It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! — Mark Rydell
With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible for them to… — Sigourney Weaver
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen. — King Vidor

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