Cinema Quote by John Frankenheimer

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

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed…

— Joseph Fiennes

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a…

— Rostam Batmanglij

A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their…

— George Cukor

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

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

— Ken Adam

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

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium.…

— Annette Bening

The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don't give the director enough control.

— D. B. Sweeney

I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.

— Hal Needham

As an actor, you have to give up all control to the director. He's the boss, and has all the power. I'm a control…

— Ebon Moss-Bachrach