Director Quotes

Director Quote of the day

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

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

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

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

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

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 don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

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.

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

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.

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.

All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation.

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

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

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

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.

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there. You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

Actors need to trust themselves. If you trust yourself, you can trust others and leave the director outside.

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

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.

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

Music is the fastest motivator in the world.

Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.

Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.

Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.

Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.

Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.

A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.

Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.