Challenges Quote by Dustin Hoffman

As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.

— Theodore Melfi

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're…

— Juan Antonio Bayona

I never argue with any director. When they say something will click, I believe them.

— Mohanlal

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no…

— John Hurt

The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly…

— Joseph M. Kahn

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

— Julian Jarrold

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

— Takashi Miike

If the director has clarity of thought and vision, you are bound to just go ahead and do what he wants to do. I…

— Manoj Bajpayee

A very quick way to annoy me as an actor is a director trying to tell me what my character's thinking.

— Lily Gladstone

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my…

— David Slade

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.

— Udo Kier