Best Film Directors Quotes

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director. — William Monahan

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

No two directors make the same film the same way. — Rob Cohen

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

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

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

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers. — Jackie Chan

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

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

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

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

There's a bunch of directors that I really admire, and Australian ones as well. It would be nice to do a film at home. — Mia Wasikowska