Director Quotes

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.

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents.

I think every director has a different methodology.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there’s something about the scarcity that makes it all the more valuable.

I didn’t just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I’m also an investor.

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

What’s interesting, is that I’ve found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated.

I think the writer’s quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas [Hynter] who, besides being the director, is also director of the National Theatre is, I’d have thought, slightly more risky.