Movie Director Quotes

The difference between being a director and being an actor is the difference between being the carpenter banging the nails into the wood, and being the piece of wood the nails are being banged into.

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The director of a film is treated by his staff the way a group of passengers would treat a psychotic ship's captain during a typhoon: namely, with respect and apprehension.

There are two kinds of directors—allies and judges.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

The film-director is not a creator but a midwife.  His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

When you're working for a good director, you become subjective and submissive.  You become his concubine.  All that you seek is his pleasure.