Able Quote by Mathieu Demy

You - as a director, you have to do your job, you have to show things, and you don't have to ask the actors…

— Michel Hazanavicius

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium.…

— Annette Bening

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

That suspension of disbelief that's required as an actor to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances is different to what needs to happen as a…

— Alex O'Loughlin

As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and…

— Cary Fukunaga

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision,…

— Donnie Yen

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well sit in…

— Frank Oz

You’re directing a movie, but you are at the head of a ship of people, a whole fleet of people. And being able to…

— Idris Elba

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror; if they…

— Jane Campion

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin

As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come…

— Maya Hawke

On a very small scale, I kind of understand why the directors that I work with do certain things. I don't consider myself an…

— Hayley Kiyoko