Quotes About Director

I love everything John Carpenters ever done.

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

The Bigelow tweets now crested with "I still believe that if 'The Hurt Locker' had been directed by a man it would not have won the Oscar for best director." I liked the definitiveness of this proclamation.

Hide the ideas," he wrote, "but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden."2 To accomplish this required great focus and economy of means on the part of the director, a rigorous and austere quest for purity of expression. "Everything should not be shown, or there is no art; art lies in suggestion. . . . Mystery should be preserved; since we live in mystery, mystery should be on the screen."3 He proposes several ways to achieve this end.

The university had a new Managing Director, whose greatest achievement had been to change his title from 'The Principal' to 'The Managing Director'.

'Iron Man' and 'Iron Man 2' are as Jon Favreau films as you can see.

I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and explore the character. He gives you a lot of space, and you know every time will be a very long journey. You just live in the character, and that's very different from other directors.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

In animation, there's not a medium I believe that's more collaborative. It is a team of people, of different disciplines, coming together. The decisions are made by consensus in many cases. My job as a director is to exercise the best judgement I can in terms of which decision is the best one to make for the movie.

When you're on set, you're like, 'Everyone's judging me because I'm the director, and everyone thinks I'm doing this because I just love myself and I want to do everything.' Part of it's true: I do want to do everything, and I do kind of love myself.

I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a hat-check boy in a restaurant. I had another job as an assistant to a casting director. It took a lot to get myself enough money to put myself through Juilliard.

I like a lot of international people. Julie Taymore, the American director - she's one of the most exciting directors I've seen.

As a director, just to be able to jump in to do something that's different, and to explore comedy and be challenged by that, is great. Some directors never get that opportunity.

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

As the director, you have it in your mind how you want the part done, how you want someone to do it, and so sometimes you just say, 'Why don't I do it myself?' So for a little role, I'll just do it.

I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it.

Escape' really helped launch my career as a writer/director, so from there I just kind of took off on my own.

I'm a director first and foremost, and I hope that the fact that I'm female is just one of the many things that informs my unique perspective on the world.

You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

Justin Lin has just been exceptional with what he does with that vehicular action.

I am very keen to do a film that's female-led.

I'm keen to go back to Hindi films, both as an actor and even better, as a director.