Quotes About Director

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

I'd never made a teen comedy in my life.

Ang Lee's been nominated for best director for "Life of Pi," which is what I'm going to call the six weeks after I take this dress off.

On the train back, Svetlana told me about a Serbian movie director who had been friends with her father in Belgrade. The director's wife, an actress, had gone to Paris to make a movie with a young French director. The French director had died tragically, by falling off a bar-stool. "They say it might have been suicide," Svetlana said.

Everyone is a lead actor cum director of their own movie called life and any sensible director believes strongly always in playing out a good character through a lead actor for making his movie a truly blockbuster."

Performance appraisal of employees in the private organization is like TV Comedy Show which has performing artists often better talented than judges and an anchor is like HR whose job is often questionable and nothing to say about the role character of the director.

Citizen Kane is widely considered the best film ever made.

I made this film for the Brazilian middle class. It was an opportunity for me to find out more about my country. We abandoned this part of society and now we are reaping the consequences. – Director Fernando Meirelles

When audiences rejected Ace in the Hole, Wilder said: "F*** them all. It's the best picture I ever made.

The film was semi-autobiographical. Director Mahesh Bhatt based it on his relationship with actress Parveen Babi.

Hrishikesh Mukherjee's cinema brims with wit, charm and an inherent decency.

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing this. If I can work with the best director I'm going to do it.

I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.

You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

I have always cited the decision by director Stephen Frears to shoot 'Mrs. Henderson Presents' before my script of 'The Queen' as the reason for my taking the plunge as a playwright.

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met.

If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.

Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.

Quentin Tarantino doesn't beat Hal Ashby, and he's one of my favorite directors. Quentin is incredible.

I'm a big Quentin Tarantino fan.

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.