Cinema Quote by John Tiffany

So many directors these days direct by design and shoehorn you into things - direction or blocking - that they had in mind previously.…

— Christian Cooke

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they…

— Christian Bale

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue…

— B. J. Novak

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept…

— Laurence Sterne

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people…

— Taylor Hackford

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're…

— Jonah Hill

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is…

— Harold Ramis

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of…

— John Carpenter

I think that what's important as a director is to give your actors the feeling that they're protected, the feeling of confidence, the feeling…

— Michael Haneke

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

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power…

— Joe Eszterhas

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should…

— Kevin Hart