Directors Quotes

1613 Directors quotes by 1113 unique authors

Be what we make, and not who we are. — Catherine Breillat
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view. — Jafar Panahi
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
When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors. — Puff Daddy
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
First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't… — 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
So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies. — 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 feel like actors, having spent a lot of time on movie sets, tend to make decent directors, because they've been there, they know what… — C. Thomas Howell
I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think… — C. Thomas Howell

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