Able Quote by Lee Grant

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

— Adam Driver

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

— Shiri Appleby

Being a father is like directing Alien or Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's much more difficult than directing an episode of TV. Also,…

— Misha Collins

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

— Salman Rushdie

My father is definitely the inspiration behind working with new directors.

— Naga Chaitanya

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it…

— Guy Pearce

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.

— Warren Farrell

What I've discovered from working with my father is that I'm still learning. I'm just a kid in this business. And I've seen from…

— Scott Eastwood

When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't…

— Eric Bana

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but…

— Jason Reitman