Character Quote by Harold Ramis

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.

— Terry Southern

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

— Ilaiyaraaja

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

— Mary Harron

It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot, and good…

— Colin Firth

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much…

— Julie Harris

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

— Sam Wanamaker

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

— Richard Gere

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it…

— Christopher McQuarrie

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people…

— Taylor Hackford

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

— Christian Bale