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I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.
Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.
Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.
Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.
You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.
Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.
There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.
A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.
I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.
I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.
I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.
The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.
But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.
As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.
I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.
I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.
That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.
I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.
As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'
The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.
Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.
Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.
All of the directors I've worked with I've gotten along with very well.
I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.
I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.
I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.
I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.
Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.
The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.
There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.
The first-time director thing is just another label somebody puts on you.
When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."