Directors Quotes

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

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

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

The best director is the one you don't see.

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or a critic. Truthfully, I don't know. All I know is that I wanted to get closer and closer to films.

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

(When asked what a director does) I help.

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I became a close friend of Jack Hannah, the director of the Donald Duck film shorts.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.