Acquired Quote by Richard Eyre

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

To be a director, you have to be especially patient.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

— Steven Spielberg

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

— Wong Kar-wai

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

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

— Himesh Reshammiya

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

— David Slade

I'm not the type of person who can be a director for hire, I have to find my own way into it.

— Marielle Heller

Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the lights, everything…

— Steven Knight

I don't think you can be a great director without knowing a lot about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

— Barkhad Abdi

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

— Ted Kotcheff