Constructs Quote by Danny Boyle

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

The key is you don't want to control the controlled stuff too much and you don't want to be too free flowing in uncontrolled…

— Greig Fraser

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are…

— Norman Foster

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

— Kevin Munroe

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

— Bradley Cooper

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and…

— Roman Coppola

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

The relationship to the director is becoming more crucial to me, making sure there are some common goals. I haven't been in the kind…

— Kathy Bates

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

— Ellen Burstyn

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get…

— Jon M. Chu

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so…

— Shane Meadows

As a director the first level of management is people. You have to deal with about 100 creative egos and make sure they subscribe…

— Zoya Akhtar