Directors Quote by Catherine Hardwicke

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

— Joshua Michael Stern

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing it for…

— Rob Marshall

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who…

— Roman Coppola

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

— David Slade

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on.

— Laura Dern

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole career behind…

— Ruba Nadda

I think as a director you have to make it your own. It'd be a mistake to approach a project with the idea of…

— Cheryl Hines

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

— Ellen Burstyn

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

— Cameron Diaz

Independent film is such a huge deal in the UK. There aren't many big budget studio movies that get greenlit at all. The indie…

— Aml Ameen

I'm considered to some degree a successful director working in Hollywood, making films my way but using studio financing. But with almost every single…

— Alexander Payne

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached.…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr