Best Quote by Zoya Akhtar

The directing thing, to do it well, I think you have to have a hell of a lot more discipline than I do, or…

— Janeane Garofalo

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think…

— Marianne Elliott

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

— Natalie Portman

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

It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to…

— Dan Mazer

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

To be a director, you have to be especially patient.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

In order to be a good director, you also need to be a good entrepreneur because the director is in charge of everything and…

— Atul Kulkarni

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

— Kristen Stewart

As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so…

— Shane Meadows

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

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