Cinema Quote by Robert De Niro

When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut your dream…

— Marion Cotillard

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

— Brett Ratner

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

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

— Bobby Farrelly

As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging…

— Jason Bateman

A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an acting point…

— Clive Owen

When you're out there trying to still figure things out, it can just slow things down. So you have to kind of think on…

— Wes Ball

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

Every department from the director to the art takes their time to set up, similarly as an actor it is your responsibility to take…

— Tripti Dimri

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do…

— Carol Kane

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

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

— Steven Spielberg