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Quotes About Director

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.
~ Mira Nair
Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.
~ John Lasseter
It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
~ Cuba Gooding, Jr.
I was the one who kept telling my second husband he should become a cinematographer. I paid for him to get his director's card, and he went on to make 'Godspell.'
~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.
~ Brady Corbet
I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.
~ Tyler Perry
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.
~ Michael Shannon
Suppose you want to be a great archeologist, and you join a successful archeologist as a student assistant, and he tells you where to dig. You dig up a marvelous discovery. Now I ask you, who should get the credit: the director or the digger?
~ William Lipscomb
No one pretty much tells me what kind of horror films to make.
~ James Wan
I enjoyed working with Vikram Kumar, as he is an amazing director who is full of ideas, and he tells me that he has different compartments in his brain in which he places different story ideas and works on them simultaneously.
~ Suriya
Wanted' and 'Rowdy Rathore', which I directed in Hindi, were remakes of Telugu hits. Telugu films have contributed to my growth in a big way.
~ Prabhu Deva
It was when I was shooting for a Telugu film in Hyderabad when director Meher Ramesh approached me for 'Veera Kannadiga.' I was game to explore a new language and said yes.
~ Anita Hassanandani Reddy
I watched the Telugu version of 'Pokkiri' several times. Of course, I wielded the megaphone for the Tamil version. The script is very close to my heart.
~ Prabhu Deva
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
~ Andrew Lau
I don't have the temperament of being a director.
~ Himesh Reshammiya
What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.
~ James Gray
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.
~ Robert De Niro
general». Al Qaeda no existió hasta el año 2000, ya que Bin Laden —hacía «décadas»Ã¢â'¬â€ trabajaba contra los rusos para la CIA, cuyo actual director estaba sentado detrás del señor Powell con gravedad en el semblante. Eran los Estados Unidos los que contaban con al menos una «década» de contacto con Sadam.
~ Robert Fisk
He was an editor for seven years before directing his first film, and his career stands as an argument for the theory that editors make better directors than cine-matographers do; the cinematographer is seduced by the look of a film, while the editor is faced with the task of making it work as a story.
~ Roger Ebert
At the January 11, 1910, board meeting, he quietly retired as a director of Standard Oil:
~ Ron Chernow
Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.
~ Philip Neri
He would think of Heaven and London and Our Lady of Acoma and the rows and rows of babies in clean bottles and Jesus flying up and Linda flying up and the great Director of World hatcheries and Awonawilona.
~ Aldous Huxley
That's the spirit I like, said the Director
~ Aldous Huxley
As recently as a week ago, in the Director's office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life.
~ Aldous Huxley