I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a huge impact. So I think that’s what really started me off.

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

My parents said, Oh, he’s going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

I’m sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.

I always say that I’m not the director, I’m part of the team.

You either are a good director or you’re not.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I’m not a director to make an action or horror film. That’s not for me.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Let God direct your steps. The main reason why many steps fail is that people know God is an expert in directing steps, but they don’t want to give him the contract.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you’ve done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to...

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call “Microwave Media”. I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes...

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I’d go for broke. Always.

The time to act is now! Somebody go get the Director.

In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague...

I didn’t write to become a director, which many people do.

I think that’s the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

Theater is very much the world I’d like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

I really feel that I’m a much better director than I was an actor.

I don’t think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

After all, at end of the day, when you’re breathing your last, it’s not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it’s your children. Keep that in mind.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director – he is the movie.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor… The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

When you’re the director, you kinda do all the work.

I have actually lost a couple of roles – film roles – because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

Time management is a big part of the director’s job.

I don’t want to be a director. I want to direct. There’s a difference.

… Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God’s behalf to provide direction for...

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

I have my pride. I’m a director. I’m not going to go and recreate some other director’s vision.

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn’t stick to what the director’s intentions are, it all falls down. I adore working with actors.

I got my dailies every day, although I couldn’t always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day’s shoot, both as an actress and as the director.

When I can see things through the lens of the director, it’s like being able to see the whole puzzle – it’s not just about my role, but the whole script.

Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn’t even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn’t...

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

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.

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I’m trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

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.