Appreciate Quote by Roman Coppola

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who…

— Roman Coppola

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying to do.…

— Alfonso Cuaron

You always have to figure out what the director is good at before you work with them; then you can fill in if need…

— Stellan Skarsgard

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

— William Monahan

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

— Natalie Portman

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just…

— Paul Feig

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

— David Slade

I haven't been a director-for-hire for any project. I work with people who appreciate that, understand that, and want to work that way.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

— Ellen Burstyn

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

I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually started doing…

— Susanna Fogel

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it…

— Billy Bob Thornton