Director Quote by Elvis Mitchell

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in…

— Danny Elfman

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

— Rebecca Miller

I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would…

— Elizabeth Pena

Film is a very intimate medium.

— David Morse

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

— Tilda Swinton

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

— Peter Sarsgaard

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger…

— Roland Joffe

What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a…

— Cate Blanchett

While 'Tezz' is being touted as an action-thriller, I feel there is an immense emotional connect.

— Sameera Reddy

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a…

— Minor White

“I try hard to give rhythm to the changes of pace in a film so that the directing is full of contrast: moments when…

— Alain Resnais

The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared.

— Avi Lewis