“A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.” PeopleDirectorsCaptainsGood Directors Author:Melanie Laurent
“As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.” PeopleCharacterActorsFocusDirectorsSolitaryEnsemble Author:Jodie Foster
“Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.” PeopleDifferentMomentsOpportunityDecisionPiecesStyleDesignDirectorsProductionsObsessedVisualsDifferent PeoplesDifferent StylesProduction Design Author:B. J. Novak
“Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.” PeopleJobsQuietDirectorsOverratedUnderrated Author:Todd Phillips
“I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams playing a tough woman in 'The Fighter' was a surprise. People saw her as a princess.” PeopleWayFeelsJobsFeltAudienceSawsDirectorsToughSurpriseFighterPrincessAmyTough Women Author:David O. Russell
“You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.” PeopleOne ThingDirectorsJust OneCastingCasting Directors Author:Stephen Root
“I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.” PeopleLittlesSaidDifferentNiceInfluenceDirectorsHypothetical Author:Andrew Sarris
“One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.” PeopleHumansHas BeensResponsibilityRolesConditionsDirectorsUnderstoodOneselfRelateHuman Condition Author:Tom Skerritt
“I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.” PeopleThinkingVisionPlansTvsDirectorsProductionsExecutivesSwimmingPoolSwimming PoolMovie Director Author:Bruno Tonioli
“L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.” PeopleKnowsShowsKidsGrewDirectorsNormalGrew UpInsaneChicagoCastingShow BusinessManhattanCasting Directors Author:Matt Walsh
“I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker schedule, and it's the TV directors I've worked with that I looked to and became a big fan of.” PeopleBigsPastFilmFansTelevisionTvsLuckyDirectorsSchedulesReally GreatGreat FilmPeople From The Past Author:Michael Weatherly