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

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 director who you can ask for help anytime up above.

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 the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters.

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.

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.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

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

[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 do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in...

It’s so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

Life is a movie. You are the director in it. The choices you make, are the things that you will see. After you make a choice, there will be no going back, only simple things that will erase it.

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

The first movie I did was ‘Dan in Real Life,’ which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green.’

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

With ‘Eagle of the Ninth,’ every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, ‘Do this!’ And I say, ‘How was it?’ and he says, ‘Good.’ It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director, and, the audience.

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

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 didn’t so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

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.

Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen.

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 the other.

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 time. Slow, precious, tempered time. A script is a film’s recipe. It’s just a piece of paper to the novice...

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

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 ghetto from persecution.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 your children. Directors are in charge. It involves knowing and helping them to understand God’s standard for children’s behavior. It...