An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.

My husband’s a director, so he understands what I do.

A director just pushes them a little this way or that way.

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

The record producer is the music world’s equivalent of a film director.

I’m the Director of Redundancy. I’m also the Director. I make love like I make love, and that is why I am the Director of Redundancy.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

I think a director does have a huge responsibility to draw strands together, and to seek extension and development of his or her own ideas.

In ‘Winter’s Bone,’ it’s literally the director and the camera operator. That’s it. Just a super-small Kubrick crew. You know what I mean? Like, 8 people.

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.

I had a dream about you. We were actors in a horror movie and I was hunting you down with a knife. When I finally cornered you the director yelled “Cut”…. What? I can’t be...

I started my career as an actor, but I’ve been a director for 15 years now.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. ‘From Here to Eternity’ must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

Every director should take an acting class.

We made love like two shy people who acted like we’ve never acted in front of a camera before. Aside from the lead actor, I was also the producer, director, cameraman, and financier.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director’s assistant, an editor.

If you’re a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that’s dangerously close to arrogance.

Everyone is a lead actor cum director of his 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...

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

The director’s very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don’t have a director telling you how to do it.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I’m always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it’s a director’s medium, and if they don’t want to hear from me I just step back.

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else’s decision about the final form of something. It’s so hard as to be intolerable.

A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

Adam Kuambiana umerudi nyumbani ulikotoka, ukiongozwa na imani na mwanga wa wale uliowapenda na kuwapoteza. Hatuwezi kukumbuka kwamba umetutoka bila kukumbuka kwamba uliishi, na kwamba maisha yako yalitupa kumbukumbu nzuri tusizoweza kuzisahau haraka. Jumanne, siku...

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.

But a writer’s contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that’s what being...

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it’s very important to always support new projects.

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened by that.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I don’t think it’s a director’s job to peek behind the curtain too much.

It’s an important thing to have a relationship with the director, and have it be a positive one.

You have to get it in your brain that you don’t belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define ‘serendipity’ as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you...

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

The director had come to Madrid to court me.

Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a...

One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers—anyone who wants to work in...

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn’t know what they want. And that can be really, really frustrating.

I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.