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Writer is a Film Director of letters. — Rajesh Nanoo

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates. — Guillermo Del Toro

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium. — Danny Elfman

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby. — John Abraham

I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film. — Russell Crowe

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand. — Gary Oldman

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director. — William Monahan

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director. — Woody Allen

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it. — Aaron Johnson

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director. — Jodie Foster

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

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director. — Terry Gilliam

I'm not a director to make an action or horror film. That's not for me. — Jason Alexander

It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film. — Patricia Riggen

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here. — John Cassavetes

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim. — Alfred Hitchcock

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me. — Beatrice Dalle

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan

'The Best Man' was my first feature film, and I didn't want to be known as a director who only does romantic comedies. — Melissa De Sousa

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best. — James Franco

The best films are because of nobody but the director. — Roman Polanski

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare. — Mara Wilson

I am the best film director in the world. — Lars Von Trier

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film. — Julianne Moore

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me. — Leslie Caron

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking. — Stanley Tucci

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death. — Abbas Kiarostami

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival. — Salma Hayek

I feel comfortable with either digital or film - the director and the project should determine the course of choice. — Robert Richardson

A film is a director's vision ... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have. — Natasha Richardson

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

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story. — Darren Aronofsky

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

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films. — Barry Sonnenfeld

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table. — Debbie Allen

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles. — Agnes Varda

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. — Trevor Nunn

No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay. — Paul Thomas Anderson

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film. — Shirley Knight

The film was semi-autobiographical. Director Mahesh Bhatt based it on his relationship with actress Parveen Babi. — Anupama Chopra

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director. — Anthony Browne