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.

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...

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.

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.

A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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.

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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.