Captains Quote by Fritz Lang

Different actors have different rhythms. My goal as a director is to let these guys get their best work out.

— Jonathan Krisel

The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.

— Alexandre Desplat

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

— Guy Pearce

There is always a collaboration between the director and the actors, and you always have to listen as the actors have to listen to…

— Baran bo Odar

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

A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence…

— Frederick Wiseman

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

— Ludwig Goransson

The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the crew has…

— Melissa Leo

I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and…

— Dustin Hoffman

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

— Peter Sarsgaard

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

— Charlton Heston

When you direct the dialogue you can be precise, but with a song as a director you're more like a football coach. You can…

— Maren Ade