Quotes About Director

I moved to MIT from Stanford in 1984 to teach, and became the founding director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

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

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

I've never considered myself a writer writing stuff to sell, but as a director who writes stuff for himself to direct.

Although my perception might have been distorted by melancholy, it seemed to me that most of those people were in pairs, the larger percentage of them holding hands, as if they were extras in a movie of high romance, accessorizing a scene for which the director's purpose might have been to say that life was a parade lived two-by-two, as it had been since before Noah's fabled ark and as it would be always.

I started off as an assistant director in Mani Ratnam's 'Ayudha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva.'

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director.

You cannot sit at home at act. You need a story, a director, you need people to believe in you, to put you through that journey. It is not something you can attain within yourself.

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it's being shot. Any or all of those things. But if the writing is really appalling, then the money had better be really good. Sometimes you say yes to something you wouldn't always do because you need the money.

My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.

I make movies that audiences like, that I'd want to see. That's all.

In England, theater auditions are gentler experiences. You sit down with the director and talk about the play.

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.

I want to become a movie director and win an Academy Award. That's what I'm trying to do.

The director's job is like a teacher's, and I feel a teacher should not have any doubts about the subject.

I particularly relate to the films of Mikio Naruse and Shinichi Kamoshita, a person whose work I watched very much as a child, a director of family dramas for television.

I like to draw my storyboards myself.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I always dreamt of being a director.

Truly, I never dreamt of becoming an actor - I always wanted to be a director.

I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.

Cameron Mackintosh