Athletics Quote by Clair Bee

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any…

— Sergei Eisenstein

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

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

— Delhi Ganesh

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

— Christian Bale

I think every directing team works differently in the same manner that every director works differently. Everybody has a different personality and a different…

— Anthony Russo

The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have,…

— Stellan Skarsgard

But, working with directors whose history is in performance, I feel like there's a different kind of focus, as opposed to directors who are…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

— Ara Parseghian

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

— Shiri Appleby