Capable Quote by Hal Needham

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some of them got a little discouraged because they didn't…

— Ray Harryhausen

In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.

— Michael Schoeffling

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer…

— John Cusack

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

— John Frankenheimer

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

— Dino Morea

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director…

— Anton Corbijn

I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role or film.…

— Atul Kulkarni

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

— Kathryn Bigelow

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

— Dimple Kapadia

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do,…

— Julie Christie

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't…

— Richard Gere