Quotes About Director

The executives had also sent the script to Steven Spielberg, whose fantasy films had made him the most commercially successful director in Hollywood. Everyone, including Spielberg, thought he was the wrong choice. However, Warner Bros. sent every script to "Steven" first.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.

I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and I just think he's a fantastic man, and a great creator, and a good friend.

I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a couple of radio shows. Later on I was in a play he directed.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

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

You have to move really fast, as a director in television. If you're able to keep things moving on set, everybody has more fun, and when everybody has more fun, the end result is funnier.

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

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

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.