Directors Quotes - Page 7

As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, youve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance.

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with a pen and some loose leaf.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

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

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handing over that fear to the director, who has to make sense of all those options!

Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

Sometimes you have to say the words exactly how they are on the page, but sometimes when you improv, it only helps to get across what's on the page, and I just love working with directors who allow that.

People have forgotten how to tell a story.