Quotes of: Film-directors Keyword

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

Yvonne Strahovski

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

Kajol

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director" - Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

Channing Tatum

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

Park Chan-wook

I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called 'Lore;' another director, Rachel Perkins - she's an Aboriginal director, and I've worked with her three times now, and sh...

Deborah Mailman

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

Paul Feig

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Sergei Eisenstein

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

Shirley Knight

I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.

Donnie Yen

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

John Abraham

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn ho...

James Spader

For me, a director is a director immaterial of the gender. At the end of the day, the audience is only interested in watching a good film.

Boman Irani

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set ...

Anton Corbijn

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

Tony Gilroy

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

Felicity Jones

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

Spike Lee

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.

Park Chan-wook

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

John Cassavetes

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Alejandro Jodorowsky