Details Quote by Roger Ebert

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

— Adrian Pasdar

As directors, we get very stuck on the stories we want to tell.

— Anna Boden

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the gift of…

— Noomi Rapace

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

— Christian Bale

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

— Janusz Kaminski

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

Directing is all about storytelling. It's not about equipment, or anything else.

— John Carpenter

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from other people.…

— Geena Davis

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

— Julian Jarrold

You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.

— Leonardo DiCaprio