Quotes About Director

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

You either are a good director or you're not.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting around those issues.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

Montana winters were never mild, and this winter felt even more brutal than normal. Taylor Harris sucked in a sharp breath at the blast of frigid air as she and Jane Weiss, the new director of the

I used to work at Grand Point Bluff, a retirement community in Keelstone Cove, where I live. I was the director of entertainment. It was my job to plan all the social activities." "And you started making coffins during craft hour?" Jesse asked dryly.

A Tip from Bonnie Sue: God is the ultimate band director. Pay close attention, because you don't want to get ahead of him. Stick with him in perfect timing, and he will make a beautiful melody out of your life.

The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.

The director of the FBI had been boasting about catching spies he did not really catch. Elizebeth, who did catch them, bragged about her family.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.