Director Quotes

• A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

  

  Frank Darabont
  • Movie
  • Should
  • Director

• He went to every fund-raising meeting vouching for a first-time feature director and first-time screenwriter. It was Phil who said, 'I believe in them; you need to trust me.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
  • Fundraising

• I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Inspiration
  • Conversation
  • Conflict

• I've definitely become more aware and conscious of what directors I'm working with because it's so important. The director is really more than half the battle of the film. You really rely on that. That's become really, really important to me, for sure.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Important
  • Film
  • Working

• When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

  

  Erich Leinsdorf
  • Party
  • Director
  • Symphony

• Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Experience
  • Dark
  • Film

• I don't consider myself a flashy director. A lot of times, people will look and don't even know what I do.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Times
  • Consider
  • Even

• I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Important
  • Reality
  • Subject

• While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought was really beautifully written, it doesn't really need a movie because it is a movie. So I think you need a unique game - you either need an incredibly talented writer and director to come in and put together an amazing vision, or you need a game like Metal Gear, which is very cinematic, has a huge amount of history behind it, but whose cinematic experience is very different from what you'd get in a theater.

  

  David Hayter
  • Experience
  • History
  • Movie

• With bad movies, I have this image in my head of the director and the editor in the editing room watching a scene that is not happening, looking at each other and saying, 'Put some music in there.'

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Movies
  • Saying
  • Watching

• I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Business
  • Director
  • Sights

• Casting, to me, is always the same. It's a very important part of a director's job. I pick people that I sense I'd like to be in a room with and will enjoy the rehearsal process with because that's the best part.

  

  Scott Ellis
  • Important
  • Best
  • Always

• When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

  

  Rebecca De Mornay
  • Professional
  • Wanted
  • Singer

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

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Director

• I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • World
  • Hope
  • Meaningful

• The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Music
  • Education
  • Director

• There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Power
  • Feeling
  • Wonderful

• If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

  

  Charles L. Grant
  • People
  • World
  • Stage

• I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • She
  • Gift
  • Bankhead

• Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Child

• In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Director
  • Studio
  • Controls

• Actors aren't stupid, mostly, and if there's a sensibility and an aesthetic that a director's going for, if you're aware of that too, you can do things to help that.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Help
  • Stupid
  • Actors

• We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean I do like the feeling of waking up on my own, having this moment of like: "Oh, f**k, I hope I can do this today!" Because it makes you realise that you're working with material or you're working with a director or you're working with a cast and they're keeping you on your toes.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Fear
  • I Hope
  • Realise

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