Arise Quote by Christine Swanson

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

— William H. Macy

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You…

— Nora Ephron

Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and then you…

— Ian Mckellen

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

— Griffin Dunne

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

— D. B. Sweeney

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh

While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A mystifying plot…

— Edwin Catmull

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just…

— George Lucas

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working…

— Jessica Lange

I subscribe to the great George G. Scott quote, "All actors are in trouble. Directors who don't help are a pain in the ass".…

— John Lithgow