Directors Quotes

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

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

I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter.

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.