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

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

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

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

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 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

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors. — Diego Luna

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 think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the film. They're replaced. — Ben Folds

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

I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect. — Ricky Jay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires. — Park Chan-wook