Audience Quote by Joseph M. Kahn

It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that you see…

— Catherine Hardwicke

The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly…

— Joseph M. Kahn

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

— Adrian Pasdar

I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion about everything.

— Etan Cohen

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.

— William Wyler

I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up…

— Zach Gilford

It is important to know what audiences might expect from their genre movies, but I think it is also important to not give them…

— Karyn Kusama

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the…

— Max von Sydow

I don't watch many films. I just make sure my directors are really good. I will work even with a debut director, but the…

— Suriya