Cinema Quote by Miriam Shor

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

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 a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want.

— David Slade

As the director, it's just a constant stream of meetings where you meet with all of the creatives who make all of the decisions…

— Miriam Shor

As a director, you have to know what actors are doing. You're the one telling them what to do. The actors' job is to…

— Eli Roth

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's…

— Shawn Levy

I am a hands-on director.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people.…

— Catherine Hardwicke

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

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of…

— Billy Bob Thornton

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

— Bryan Cranston

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

— William Monahan