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OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them. — Jack Nicholson

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. — Viggo Mortensen

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. — John Frankenheimer

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The Odd Life of Timothy Green.' — CJ Adams

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork. — DeVon Franklin

Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? — Jennifer Lawrence

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. — Michael Caine

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone. — Famke Janssen

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. — Jason Reitman

I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie. — Michael Keaton

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually. — Todd Haynes

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project. — Richard King

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie. — Tahar Rahim

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director. — Ryuhei Kitamura

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. — Oscar Isaac

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything. — Douglas Booth

Be Your Best Without the Stress!Be the director and actor in your movie, called My Life. — Katrina Radke

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on. — Jeff Tremaine

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work. — Jordi Molla

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. — Richard Gere

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. — Scott Caan

I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director. — Eli Roth

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

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director. — Gaspar Noe

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. — Bret Easton Ellis

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself. — Juan Diego Solanas

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending. — Chris Matthews

As producers, we can influence where the budget goes, but only the director really controls what tone, what type of movie you are trying to make. — Michelle Yeoh

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer. — Michel Gondry

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. — Griffin Dunne

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors. — Zhang Ziyi

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. — Daniel Day-Lewis

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has. — John Frankenheimer

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different. — Marion Cotillard

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face. — Chris Rock

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie. — Maddie Hasson

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set. — Stanley Tucci

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director. — Frank Oz

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. — Hans Zimmer

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. — Oliver Stone

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. — Billy Wilder

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. — Matt Damon

I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go. — Ghostface Killah

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie. — David Fincher

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character. — Melanie Laurent

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director. — J. C. Chandor

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about. — Cameron Crowe

Life is like a movie where you are both the director and the actor. — Steven Redhead

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. — John Carpenter

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control. — Tom Perrotta

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate. — Roger Ebert

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie. — Andy Kindler

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen. — Julie Delpy

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants. — Jeff Fahey

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium. — Rebecca Romijn

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should. — Frank Darabont

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in. — Mark Romanek

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. — Robert Doisneau

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels. — Kellan Lutz

The only entry level position on a movie is director. — Colin Hanks

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. — Cecil B. DeMille

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting. — Corbin Bernsen

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. — Jason Reitman

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie. — Peter Sarsgaard

We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer. — Andrew Kaufman

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that director's vision. — Christine Vachon