Top Director Quotes

You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.

If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

Director Definition

(n.) One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

(n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company.

(n.) A part of a machine or instrument which directs its motion or action.

(n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call "Microwave Media". I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes...

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define 'serendipity' as] the art of profiting from unexpected...

Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem...

Life is a movie. You are the director in it. The choices you make, are the things that you will see. After you make a choice, there will be no going back, only simple things that will erase it.

I don't like being pigeonholed at all. It stemmed from after 'Mandy Lane': I was being offered all these horror movies. I love horror movies, but when I dreamed of being a director, it was always doin...

If you want to be a writer, then write.

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

A leadership culture is one where everyone thinks like an owner, a CEO or a managing director. It's one where everyone is entrepreneurial and proactive.

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.