Cinema Quote by Christian Bale

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as…

— John Cena

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a…

— John Tiffany

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell…

— James Cameron

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's…

— Shawn Levy

I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling…

— Michael Haneke

You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an actor or understands acting.…

— Ian Somerhalder

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

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script,…

— Robert Wise

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful…

— Grant Heslov

As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that,…

— David Leitch

So many directors these days direct by design and shoehorn you into things - direction or blocking - that they had in mind previously.…

— Christian Cooke

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or…

— Janeane Garofalo