Quotes about Movie director

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. Votes: 4

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control. Votes: 4

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director. Votes: 4

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what to do! You can't be a movie director without real preparation. Votes: 4

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director. Votes: 4

There's nobody who loves being around actors working more than David Mamet, especially actors bringing his tremendous dialogue to life. I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave. Votes: 4

I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me. Votes: 4

I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. Votes: 4

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is. Votes: 2

In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. Votes: 2

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors. Votes: 2

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on. Votes: 2

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter. Votes: 2

I'm like a movie director, so wherever I feel that I need to go over this type of beat, that's what I'm going to do, that's where I'm going to go. Votes: 2

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine. Votes: 2

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on. Votes: 2

Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature. Votes: 2

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good. Votes: 2

The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's failures. The Hoa suffered the same fate as the pizza parlour in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing except at the hands of the world's fourth largest army instead of a small, petulant movie director. Votes: 2

When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies all the time, I understand that they would never retire. And by the same token, I guess I will still be making games somehow. The only question is whether the younger people will be willing to work with me at that far point in the future. Votes: 2

The only entry level position on a movie is director. Votes: 0

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. Votes: 0

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different. Votes: 0

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. Votes: 0

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should. Votes: 0

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. Votes: 0

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in. Votes: 0

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself. Votes: 0

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. Votes: 0

I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie. Votes: 0

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants. Votes: 0

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium. Votes: 0

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. Votes: 0

An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie. Votes: 0

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone. Votes: 0

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character. Votes: 0

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has. Votes: 0

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. Votes: 0

Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. Votes: 0

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie. Votes: 0

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director. Votes: 0

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate. Votes: 0

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. Votes: 0

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors. Votes: 0

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them. Votes: 0

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork. Votes: 0

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. Votes: 0

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. Votes: 0

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face. Votes: 0

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. Votes: 0

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. Votes: 0

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. Votes: 0

I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie. Votes: 0

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. Votes: 0

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work. Votes: 0

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything. Votes: 0

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium. Votes: 0

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set. Votes: 0

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control. Votes: 0

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all. Votes: 0

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over the ending. Votes: 0

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's going great. Votes: 0

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job - especially director. Votes: 0

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling. Votes: 0

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer. Votes: 0

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about. Votes: 0

When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director. Votes: 0

I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie. Votes: 0

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director ... Votes: 0

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding. Votes: 0

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship, and that energy, everybody feels. Votes: 0

I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made. Votes: 0

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project. Votes: 0

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director. Votes: 0

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen. Votes: 0

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie. Votes: 0

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column. Votes: 0

I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer. Votes: 0

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern. Votes: 0