Quotes About Director

I don't see my movies. When you ask me about one of my movies, it just goes in my memory because maybe sometimes I confuse one for another. I think all movies are like sequences, which is the body of my work.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.

After watching 'Pagal Nilavu' I decided Mani Ratnam should be my mentor and joined him.

Tulsi Ramsay has been my mentor. In 1982, he and his brother Shyam Ramsay, came to me for 'Purana Mandir.'

Besides being one of the most ambitious projects I have worked on, 'Mercury' has also helped me enhance my skills as a director.

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The director would send down messages like, Can you tell that actor to calm down?

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

I am proud to say I'm a director's composer. People do method acting, I do method composing. I like to get into the skin of the character and go deep into the director's vision.

No NSA director did as much damage to the agency as Gen. Michael V. Hayden.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

I did a video with Mick Jagger down in Rio de Janeiro. But I played a video director, and that's the closest I've gotten to directing, except Bob Dylan came and had a few meetings with me about doing a video for him.

I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad head. That's what you become out there: a guacamole dip.

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

Working with Mike Leigh is a process of distillation.

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.

But there is always a danger that the priest qualified to seriously direct religious will be overwhelmed by the demand for his services. His first duty, if he wants to be an effective director, is to see to his own interior life and take time for prayer and meditation, since he will never be able to give to others what he does not possess himself.

Your old life and your former ways are crucified now, and you must not seek to live any more for your own gratification, but give up your own judgement into the hands of a wise director, and sacrifice your pleasures and comforts for the love of God and give

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.

According to Harold Fleming, for instance, who was then director of the Southern Regional Council, a small Atlanta hotbed of what he now calls "premature integrationists," a moderate was "a white man without sidearms.

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.