Director Quotes

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

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.

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world!

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really true.

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that's what really started me off.

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if they see their work, and the director likes what they're doing, the actor might try to correct their mistakes.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

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

In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.