Crew Quote by Don Bluth

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

You know, what is so curious about being a director is that you never get on anybody else's set and see how they do…

— Niki Caro

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

— Melanie Laurent

There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition…

— Kathleen Kennedy

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with ideas that…

— Stellan Skarsgard

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so many different…

— Carrie Preston

The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.

— Sam Levinson

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance…

— Richard Jenkins

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work…

— Willem Dafoe

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

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