Film Director Quotes
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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
I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.
— Guillermo Del Toro
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
I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.
— Russell Crowe
I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.
— Christopher Eccleston
I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the daily onslaught of problems.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Of course, you could, no doubt, call my going to film school the biggest mistake I ever made.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
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
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
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
— Aaron Johnson
The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.
— Tom Hooper
I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.
— Alfred Hitchcock
The best films are because of nobody but the director.
— Roman Polanski
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
I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.
— Paul Verhoeven
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
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
The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.
— Mike Leigh
A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
— Billy Wilder
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
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
I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.
— Martin McDonagh
The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.
— Bear McCreary
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
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 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
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
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
When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
— Kathryn Bigelow
I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.
— Barry Sonnenfeld
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
The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.
— Shirley Knight
No, really. Just do it. You have some kind of weird reasons that are okay.
— Paul Thomas Anderson
You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
— Agnes Varda
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
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
A film is a director's vision ... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.
— Natasha Richardson
I feel comfortable with either digital or film - the director and the project should determine the course of choice.
— Robert Richardson
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
It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.
— Leslie Caron
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
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
— Charlie Rose
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
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
I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.
— Stanley Kubrick
'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
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
— James Brolin
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
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 didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.
— Elia Kazan
I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.
— Beatrice Dalle