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Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. — Bruce Beresford

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

Writer is a Film Director of letters. — Rajesh Nanoo

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily have to agree with the director. — Kristin Scott Thomas

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director. — Clint Eastwood

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

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's. — Hugh Jackman

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor. — Mathieu Amalric

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. — Catherine Hardwicke

I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film. — Jim Caviezel

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it. — Daniel Handler

I believe that every director's films reflect their lifestyle. — Takashi Miike

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director. — Edward Burns

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way. — Leonardo DiCaprio

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

If you don't get it right, what's the point? — Michael Cimino

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

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium. — Christopher Eccleston

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders. — Robin Tunney

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

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 see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film. — Ricky Gervais

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

If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director. — Patrice Leconte

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

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film. — James Wan

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

When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one. — Clint Eastwood

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films. — Gaspard Ulliel

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me. — Emraan Hashmi

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around. — Martin McDonagh

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director. — Phil Ramone

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer. — Kyle MacLachlan

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'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics. — James Brolin

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. — Alfred Hitchcock

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living. — Park Chan-wook

Actors are the flowers of the film, of the set, and of the director. The term 'Flowers of the Screen' holds a deep meaning. — Kim Jee-woon

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him. — Lloyd Kaufman

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film. — Boman Irani

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

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

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real ... an audience should not be conscious of technique. — David Lean

Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them. — Robert Rodriguez

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen. — M. Night Shyamalan

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film. — Famke Janssen

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again. — Jean Renoir

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful. — Lee Daniels

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

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

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

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

An established film director can just pick up the phone and say to a star, 'Hey, are you interested in doing a commercial?' — Tony Scott

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

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould. — Leander Paes

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art. — Sally Menke

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. — Vilmos Zsigmond

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame. — Mike Leigh

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

'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

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing. — Robert Stromberg

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him. — Elizabeth Taylor

My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.' — Asif Kapadia

I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise, it doesn't interest me much. — Louis Garrel

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director. — Guy Garvey

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

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

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want. — Stanley Kubrick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over. — Stanley Tucci

A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him. — Jean Renoir

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

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 irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films. — Tom Hooper

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame. — Jeff Wall

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15. — James Brolin

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. — Ken Loach

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. — Charlie Rose

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

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've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director. — David Gordon Green

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

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about. — Satyajit Ray

Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for me as an action director. — John Glen

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

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. — Elia Kazan

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