Abstract Quote by Danny Elfman

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of…

— John Carpenter

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what…

— Robert Stromberg

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action…

— James Gray

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise…

— Stanley Kubrick

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all…

— Juliette Lewis

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people.…

— Catherine Hardwicke

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

When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.

— R. Madhavan

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting…

— Denzel Washington

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good movies that…

— Howard Shore

Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come to feel…

— Matt Damon