Consistent Quote by Ian MacKaye

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best.…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone else's point…

— Johan Renck

But, it takes some of the characters to some very dark places, and they start doing things that they might not do, if they…

— Kyra Zagorsky

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

— Randeep Hooda

Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

— Marco Bizzarri

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself…

— Tahar Rahim

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

— Malcolm McDowell

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

— Alan Parker

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director…

— Tony Goldwyn

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

— Griffin Dunne

The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together…

— Alison Pill