Director Quotes

Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people’s minds to lazy minds.

The audience has always been my best director.

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

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

In the normal life of an actor or director, running around, there’s not much time to go to church. But there’s other ways to be spiritual, too.