Anything Quote by J. J. Abrams

Somebody who doesn't understand my directing style could be pretty taken aback by it if I start going off the schedule and focusing on…

— Sean Baker

I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley…

— Sydney Pollack

What you write sets the visual style for the film. But you have to compromise your style in your first few films before people…

— Mani Ratnam

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have…

— Steven Soderbergh

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical…

— Derek Magyar

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

— Benjamin Millepied

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

— Sylvester Stallone

When I make films, I don't think of any other directors or their work in terms of the rhythm of the editing or the…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

— Fanny Brice

When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.

— R. Madhavan

I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.

— Nicholas Royle

Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit…

— Malik Yoba