Director Quote by John Lee Hancock

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

— Ewan McGregor

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want to have…

— Joe Dante

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

You have to be willing to be manipulated in the first place because you can either recognize that in your director and then fight…

— Heath Ledger

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

— Marjane Satrapi

You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way…

— Dennis Farina

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just…

— George Lucas

I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no…

— John Hurt

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to…

— Martin Freeman

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

— Takashi Miike