Art Quote by Robert Stromberg

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise…

— Stanley Kubrick

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an act of…

— John Carpenter

It all depends on the directors. Working closely with a director is the main job of a film composer. Interpreting what he perceives as…

— Danny Elfman

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action…

— James Gray

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole…

— Edward Norton

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

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

— Adam McKay

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script,…

— Robert Wise

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying…

— Mick Garris

As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening on the…

— James Newton Howard

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