Directing Quote by David Fincher

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't…

— David Fincher

There are times when I am directing, and there are a couple of moments I didn't get the way I wanted, but I know…

— Alan Ball

Directing is like looking at the stars on a cloudless night. You get away from all light sources, and you look up, and you…

— Russell Crowe

Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the…

— Javier Camara

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How…

— Rajkumar Hirani

Directing takes a lot of time.

— Jeff Bridges

As a screenwriter, you are so used to things going in directions that you wouldn't have taken, so to be able to say, 'This…

— James Watkins

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

— Julie Delpy

It's rare in a documentary film that you have a repetitive act. So when you do, you can shoot it in different ways so…

— Frederick Wiseman

If we can't get a shot after five passes, what's Ihe use of trying to set up a shot at all?

— George Mikan

There's something wrong - the performance, the weather, the set design, the lighting. Something is not working. And so you say, "Give me 10…

— Paul Schrader

With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

— Joe Hahn