Directors Quote by Steven Soderbergh Download Open image “To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.” — Steven Soderbergh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Directors Found Jobs Shapes
I'd done some acting and I didn't like being told what to do by the director, the structure of it. — Joe Lycett Copy Share Image
With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there is so… — Barun Sobti Copy Share Image
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much. — Paul Thomas Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring. — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As a director, you always want things to look good. You're always trying to make things look tidy. That's what we're all trained to… — Declan Lowney Copy Share Image
As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
In nature, if a cell gets too big, it divides. You can't come up with a set of rules that's going to work for… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
You should never assume anything coming from a critical standpoint. You should go into everything assuming you're going to get crushed. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Everybody, including me, has to submit to what it needs to be. The thing is at the top of the pyramid, the best version… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
The reverberation of the freedom of making 'Schizopolis' absolutely resulted in 'Out of Sight' and everything that followed. — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that they bring… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself. — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He wanted me… — Miles Teller Copy Share Image
I had a very blessed journey with the upbringing I had. When you're working on sets as a stuntman, you have a firsthand account… — Ric Roman Waugh Copy Share Image
Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
I was focused on The Hunger Games movie with my director, with the studio, and with the cast and crew. We all just focused… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image