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Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
— Yvonne Strahovski
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
— Guillermo Del Toro
A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.
— Hugh Jackman
Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people ... And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.
— Abraham Polonsky
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
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
— Stellan Skarsgard
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
I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.
— Ricky Gervais
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
A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.
— Helena Bonham Carter
All FILM directors are good actors, because you have to understand actors in order to program them.
— Henry Johnson Jr
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
When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
— Jacques Rivette
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
The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.
— Bear McCreary
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.
— Mike Leigh
Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
— Pauline Kael
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 am the best film director in the world.
— Lars Von Trier
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'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
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.
— Vilmos Zsigmond
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
— Alan Parker
The best films are because of nobody but the director.
— Roman Polanski
I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.
— John Waters
That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
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
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
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
— Alan Cumming
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
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
Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.
— Jason Reitman
With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.
— Ken Adam
I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
— Barry Sonnenfeld
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've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.
— Cliff Robertson
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
The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
— Tom Hooper
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
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
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
All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.
— David Hockney
You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.
— Jafar Panahi