Cinema Quote by D. W. Griffith

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make…

— John Carpenter

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of…

— Felicity Jones

As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and…

— Cary Fukunaga

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

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable…

— Shirley MacLaine

Directing a film is a lot of work.

— Fred Durst

The nature of filmmaking is that there are so many people involved in it, so many fingers in the pie, that part of the…

— David Hewlett

When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time…

— Amber Sealey

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying…

— Mick Garris

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and…

— James Franco

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way,…

— Lester Persky

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany