Director Quotes
What it takes to call yourself a director, and what it costs.
These quotes focus on the identity of directing - one insists on owning the title of filmmaker rather than hiding behind lesser labels, while another admits not wanting the weight of leading hundreds of people. Related: Directing.
Despite a good subject if the director is not up to the mark, the execution can go wrong.
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.
Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.
Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes.
The difference between one writer and the other, or one director and the other, is the way he deals with a scene.
