Cinema Quote by Ken Loach

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

— Elia Kazan

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

— Elia Kazan

All I wanted to do was be a professional film director with a body of work, and you're going to make some good films,…

— Michael Caton-Jones

To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse.…

— Woody Allen

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

— Woody Allen

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I…

— Jonathan Lethem

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I…

— Mary Harron

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not…

— Jean Renoir

It's not that much of a difference. Basically, your job is the same as a film director. It's a triangle between creativity, money, and…

— Darren Aronofsky

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be…

— Trevor Nunn

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any…

— Sergei Eisenstein

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard…

— Lloyd Kaufman