A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.
- Danny Boyle
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.
- Robert Olen Butler
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
- Alan Cumming
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
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
- Thomas Harrison
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
- Elia Kazan
I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
- Mako
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
- Trevor Nunn
I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.
- Marc Singer
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
- Yvonne Strahovski
- Danny Boyle
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.
- Robert Olen Butler
It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.
- Alan Cumming
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
Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.
- Thomas Harrison
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
- Elia Kazan
I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
- Mako
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.
- Trevor Nunn
I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.
- Marc Singer
Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
- Yvonne Strahovski
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