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For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.
— Neil Patrick Harris
I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.
— Brian Helgeland
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
— Guillermo Del Toro
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
— John Turturro
Editing a film is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors who don't mind my involvement. They appreciated it.
— Richard Gere
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
People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.
— Steve Martin
I am the best film director in the world.
— Lars Von Trier
On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.
— Elizabeth Taylor
Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided to film my life.
— James Patterson
This man (Bergman) is one of the few film directors-perhaps the only one in the world-to have said as much about human nature as Dostoevsky or Camus.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.
— Stanley Tucci
On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.
— Christine Swanson
The best films are because of nobody but the director.
— Roman Polanski
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.
— Jafar Panahi
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
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
A lot of directors straight out of film school are very technically minded, but they don't have an understanding of actors or how to talk to them.
— Peter Dinklage
I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
— Cliff Robertson
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
— Agnes Varda
I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
— Barry Sonnenfeld
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
— Ken Adam
Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.
— Jason Reitman
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
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
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
— Alan Cumming
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