Directors Quotes

Directors Quote of the day

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.