Cinema Quote by John Carpenter

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people.…

— Catherine Hardwicke

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a…

— John Tiffany

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as…

— Danny Elfman

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action…

— James Gray

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a…

— Luca Guadagnino

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what…

— Robert Stromberg

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell…

— James Cameron

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who…

— Roman Coppola

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as…

— John Cena

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad,…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.

— Andre Øvredal

Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is collaborating with…

— Beau Willimon