“Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.” WantFilmActorsDirectorsFilm Directors Author:Yvonne Strahovski
“With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.” FilmInfluenceDirectorsFilm Directors Author:Ken Adam
“I never want to make a film. I don't wake up in the morning going, 'Ooh, I'd really love to be on set making a film today'. I'm aware that other contemporary film directors perceive film-making as what they do, as what they have to do. But I would hope that I am more catholic in my tastes.” WantTodayFilmMorningTasteDirectorsWake UpCatholicContemporaryPerceiveFilm Directors Author:Stephen Daldry
“Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.” LongHardDoneFilmHard WorkDirectorsDeterminationResolveGlamourPremieresFilm Directors Author:D. W. Griffith
“I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.” ProblemWantedFilmCoursesDirectorsFindingsFilm DirectorsFinding Myself Author:Elia Kazan
“I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don't have to be a film director - you can do gardening or something - but I think everyone needs to create something.” ThinkingNeedsImportantSoulFilmCan DoCreativeDirectorsImportant ThingsGardeningFilm Directors Author:Ricky Gervais
“I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.” FilmDirectorsProfessionArchitectureIntriguedFilm Directors Author:Charlie Rose
“In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.” FilmCareersDirectorsRefuseLabelsJournalistCopExesLeaving MeGangstersSerialsFilm Directors Author:Emraan Hashmi
“Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut.” WritingBigsFilmSongWishEasyCan DoCuttingHairDirectorsComparisonOverwhelmingYou Can Do ItScopeMagnitudeWriting SongsFilm DirectorsBagelsHair Cut Author:Tom Waits
“To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.” WritingFilmMy OwnDemocracyRecordsDirectorsProjectsDirectTyrannyCollectionsEditingFilm Directors Author:Woody Allen
“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.” MenWorldHumansSaidFilmHuman NatureDirectorsFilm DirectorsBergman Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski
“There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.” FilmFitDirectorsClothesFilmmakerFilm DirectorsAuteurs Author:Lee Yoon-ki
“A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself.” IfsDoeFilmStrongChanceGoneGreaterDirectorsSecureDevicesFilm Directors Author:Elizabeth Taylor
“The realm of superstitions, fortune-telling, presentiments, intuition, dreams, all this is the inner life of a human being, and all this is the hardest thing to film.” HumansDreamFilmHuman BeingsFortuneIntuitionHardestRealmsSuperstitionsHardest ThingInner LifeCinematicFilm DirectorsFortune TellingRelay Races Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski