Certain Quote by Neil Jordan

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people, you tell…

— James Cameron

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

— William H. Macy

You know, what is so curious about being a director is that you never get on anybody else's set and see how they do…

— Niki Caro

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

— John Lasseter

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.

— Melvin Van Peebles

Sometimes, I forget that I am director.

— Sajid Nadiadwala

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within so that…

— Paul Feig

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them…

— Molly Parker

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened to quit…

— Dorothy Arzner

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get…

— Jon M. Chu