Achieve Quote by Edward Norton

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and…

— James Franco

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

— Adam McKay

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

— Rebecca Miller

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

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

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin

I think that's the job of a director really, to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

— Peter Jackson

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you…

— Eric Balfour

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working with a…

— Howard Shore

The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision, even though…

— Ken Loach

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

— Peter Sarsgaard

A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What you're helping…

— Zal Batmanglij