Admire Quote by Shiri Appleby

A director's job is like parenting. You have to look after your actors like children, pay attention to each of their different abilities.

— Kalki Koechlin

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

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

A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.

— Fred Willard

As a director, people are trusting you with their lives, with their stories.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

— Kristen Stewart

I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what…

— Gillian Jacobs

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they…

— Christian Bale

All great directors - however, they do it - make you want to be good. I hope I do it. It's like being a…

— Ann Reinking

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not…

— Stellan Skarsgard

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

— Wong Kar-wai

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

— Shirley Knight