Directors Quotes - Page 3

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

A film is a director's vision... there is, however, much input an actor or actress can have.

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

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be in my videos, so I had to do it myself and wear a bunch of wigs.

I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.

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

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

I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

Women think in Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen.

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.