Directors Quotes

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As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that. — David Brooks
I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can you do five… — Ben Stiller
I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to… — Morgan Freeman
That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he… — Morgan Freeman
I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct. — Jeremy Piven
When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love. — Gerald Jampolsky
There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize the work or… — Peter Bogdanovich
If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or… — Ben Kingsley
Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the… — D W Griffith
I've worked with more than 50 directors and I've paid attention since day one. That's pretty much been my education, apart from studying art history… — Tommy Lee Jones
With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure parents have some… — Rosa DeLauro
It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as a… — Danny Elfman
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater. — Janine Turner
There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather… — Arthur Middleton
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so… — Campbell Scott
Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company. — Elliot Morley
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the… — Orson Welles
The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors that was lying… — David Letterman
The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.... — Orson Welles
The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort of story unit.… — Walt Disney
A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army. — Orson Welles
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film. — Ricky Gervais
I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films… — Gaspard Ulliel
I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films. — Gaspard Ulliel
I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence… — Dolph Lundgren

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