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The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street. -- Robert Doisneau
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. -- Tom Perrotta
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. -- John Milius
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. -- Liam Neeson
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. -- Rebecca De Mornay
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. -- Clark Gregg
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. -- Roman Coppola
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. -- Wes Anderson
I love movie directors. I don't care who it is. -- Brett Ratner
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum. -- John Carpenter
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors. -- Peter Criss
I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on. -- Jeff Tremaine
I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a movie director. -- Frank Oz
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. -- Bruno Tonioli
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. -- Shailene Woodley
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. -- Ghostface Killah
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. -- Patricia Highsmith
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. -- Clark Gregg
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. -- Michael Fassbender
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. -- Akira Kurosawa
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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. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
The only entry level position on a movie is director. -- Colin Hanks
Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well. -- Ransom Riggs
Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different. -- Marion Cotillard
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process. -- Oliver Stone
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should. -- Frank Darabont
Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel. -- Jason Reitman
All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in. -- Mark Romanek
If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself. -- Juan Diego Solanas
If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. -- Hans Zimmer
I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie. -- Michael Keaton
If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants. -- Jeff Fahey
Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium. -- Rebecca Romijn
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie. -- Oscar Isaac
An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie. -- Amit Kalantri
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone. -- Famke Janssen
I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character. -- Melanie Laurent
I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has. -- John Frankenheimer
'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. -- Jason Reitman
Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in. -- Jason Reitman
To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie. -- Peter Sarsgaard
Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director. -- Gaspar Noe
The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate. -- Roger Ebert
In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting. -- Viggo Mortensen
A movie has its own fate, which often doesn't depend on the performances of the director and actors. -- Zhang Ziyi
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them. -- Jack Nicholson
Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork. -- DeVon Franklin
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie. -- John Frankenheimer
You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face. -- Chris Rock
If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it. -- Michael Caine
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again. -- Jean Renoir
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. -- Richard Gere
I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie. -- Tahar Rahim
Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment. -- Scott Caan
After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work. -- Jordi Molla
You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything. -- Douglas Booth
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. -- Shonda Rhimes
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. -- Stanley Tucci
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. -- Bret Easton Ellis
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. -- Griffin Dunne
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. -- Chris Matthews
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. -- Ti West
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. -- Ryuhei Kitamura
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. -- Roman Coppola
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. -- Michel Gondry
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. -- Cameron Crowe
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. -- J. C. Chandor
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. -- Andy Kindler
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 ... -- Jean Dujardin
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. -- J. C. Chandor
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. -- Kellan Lutz
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. -- Neill Blomkamp
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. -- Richard King
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. -- Jack Nicholson
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. -- Julie Delpy
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. -- Matt Damon
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. -- Warren Bennis
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. -- Andre Balazs
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. -- Jonathan Levine

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