Cinema Quote by Griffin Dunne

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that…

— Tom Wolfe

I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing something. Someone…

— Michael Urie

The Red Wedding was, for myself as a director doing this, such a mammoth experience.

— David Nutter

Writer-directors are a little bit more liberal, rather than having just the writer on the set, because I think sometimes the writer becomes too…

— Dennis Farina

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption in that…

— Sean Penn

Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights and you're…

— Russell James

But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director…

— Neil Jordan

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get…

— Cheryl Hines

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example,…

— David Cronenberg

The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories…

— Kasi Lemmons

You're in a movie, so you have to think about how something plays. It's not like you're thinking about how an audience is going…

— Julianne Moore

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director.…

— Vilmos Zsigmond