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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
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
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
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
— Christopher Eccleston
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
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
— Patrice Leconte
Lucas George (Walton) (b.1944), American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the science-fiction film Star Wars (1977),
— Amazon Dictionary Account
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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 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 would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.
— Daniel Radcliffe
The film was semi-autobiographical. Director Mahesh Bhatt based it on his relationship with actress Parveen Babi.
— Anupama Chopra
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
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
— Shirley Knight
The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
— Tom Hooper
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
— James Brolin
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