Cinema Quote by Krzysztof Kieslowski

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

No producer wants to lose money and no director wants to make a bad film. I don't think those things apply to my films.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and…

— Marc Platt

As an actor, we can only do what the director wants. Only the director has a vision of the entire film.

— Mohanlal

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of…

— John Frankenheimer

If someone is going to talk about the process of making a film, it should be the director.

— Maggie Smith

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

— Sydney Pollack

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

— William Monahan

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working…

— Jessica Lange

A director is a very selfish person. For him, his film is like his baby.

— Mani Ratnam

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much…

— Julie Harris