Accept Quote by David M. Evans

To be a director, you have to be especially patient.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

The main thing as a director, you always want to have a bit of a worry about the material you're going to get yourself…

— Susanne Bier

I haven't got the capability or the patience. As a director, you need to be very good with people's personalities and be able to…

— Jason Statham

In order to be a good director, you also need to be a good entrepreneur because the director is in charge of everything and…

— Atul Kulkarni

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

— Bobby Farrelly

A director must be patient and unflappable. I think I was always pretty relaxed. I don't find shooting as traumatic as some directors do.…

— James Ivory

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be…

— Uwe Boll

You want to give the director what they want, and you don't always know exactly how it goes, so you want to try it…

— Finn Wittrock

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or…

— Janeane Garofalo

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think…

— Marianne Elliott

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

— Patty Jenkins