Director Quotes

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

When I was a crusade director in British Columbia, all of our meetings were at 9:03. Somebody said 'That's ridiculous. Why did you do that?' It's because you remember it. You've never been to another 9:03 meeting.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor.

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.

Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's like an action flick with a great director then it's like 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director. I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

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

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

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.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.