Director Quotes

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. (Sun Tzu)
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director. View quote
David Mamet
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. View quote
Billy Wilder
I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression. View quote
Bela Lugosi
In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable. View quote
Christine Vachon
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman. View quote
Gérard Depardieu
Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience. View quote
Fanny Brice
I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director. (Daniel Radcliffe)
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee. View quote
James Cameron (director)
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. View quote
Eric Bogosian
A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again. View quote
Jean Renoir
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director. View quote
Bette Davis
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. View quote
Elia Kazan
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies. View quote
Walter Hill
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. View quote
Kevin Hart
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. View quote
Bruce Beresford
To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them. (Dino De Laurentiis)
On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. View quote
Griffin Dunne
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. View quote
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director. View quote
Michael Tilson Thomas
I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough. View quote
Tom Berenger