Concepts Quote by Steven Spielberg

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

— Oscar Isaac

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

— Clint Eastwood

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again…

— David Ayer

No producer wants to lose money and no director wants to make a bad film. I don't think those things apply to my films.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

A lot of directors don't bother to go back and look at their films, but I do.

— James Ivory

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on…

— Vijay Sethupathi

It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers…

— Anurag Kashyap

Yes, films need to make their money back - it's an expensive business, and people need to be paid for what's involved - but…

— Jason Clarke

Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your…

— Gary Sherman

Some directors do recut their films, but I don't if I disagree, and what you suffer is a less passionate marketing campaign, less investment…

— Todd Haynes

As a producer, when you get to work with a filmmaker who is joyful about making films, you want to do it again and…

— Marc Platt