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Quotes About Director

The best films are because of nobody but the director.
~ Roman Polanski
I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is the best film school that I could ever go to.
~ Lake Bell
'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies.
~ Melissa De Sousa
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.
~ Jean Renoir
Georgina are our two consultation advisers, counsellors, then there's Dr Alex Lukas, the medical director, and Nurse Louise Griffiths.' 'What's Julian Harwood's role?' 'Mr Harwood? He's managing director of the whole group. But we never see him. I mean, he
~ Peter Robinson
The job of the film director is to tell the story through the juxtaposition of uninflected images—because that is the essential nature of the medium.
~ David Mamet
this former director of the FBI whom we all hated until someone we hated even more fired him.
~ David Sedaris
I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.
~ Jeff Bridges
I have always accepted films based on what my role is. Of course, I do look at who is playing the lead opposite me, the producer and the director.
~ Meghana Raj
Bhavesh' is my most accessible film for sure.
~ Vikramaditya Motwane
I became a director by accident. M.S. Raju garu asked me to direct a movie, and I said OK. It all happened in 5 minutes.
~ Prabhu Deva
Without critical acclaim, you are just a successful commercial director, and nothing more.
~ Priyadarshan
One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.
~ Kim Jee-woon
Every director should take an acting class.
~ Paul Feig
It feels good to be able to work with a director and actors I've admired.
~ Jim Sarbh
I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.
~ Clint Eastwood
I like being adventurous in my choice of roles. It may not be the prescribed way, but it is mine and I have enjoyed giving my best to all directors.
~ Prateik Babbar
Your director is your main support - actors don't generally give each other advice on set, not in my experience.
~ Paul Dano
Whether we have a new or an old director doesn't affect my work.
~ Nana Patekar
I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.
~ Meghan Daum
Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
The first film that I can remember seeing where, like, I just couldn't stop watching it - and it didn't necessarily make me want to be a director because I was so young, but it made me know that that's what I wanted to be doing - was 'Alien.' And I saw that when I was probably just over 10 years old.
~ Neill Blomkamp
I'm a writer and director, and I like to do that, but for some reason, it's become part of the industry and part of the job to go, 'Alright, let's talk about it!'
~ Jean-Marc Vallee
The minute the director said action, you could see a different version of Sridevi altogether.
~ Rohini Hattangadi