Artistic Quote by Laurence Sterne

I thought a director was like a pillow who sat under the writer, supporting them and submitting to their vision. It took me a…

— John Tiffany

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to…

— August Wilson

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 a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create…

— John Guare

An actor and a [theatre] director are both what I would call interpreters of work. We interpret a work, just as a musician will…

— George Ogilvie

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

— Christian Cooke

Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to…

— Nilo Cruz

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise…

— Stanley Kubrick

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

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

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

— Parvathy

Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That…

— Aamir Khan