Top Director Quotes
I married Nicholas Ray, the director. People yawned. Later on I married his son, and from the press's reaction - you'd have thought I was committing incest or robbing the cradle!
Gloria Grahame
I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Gerard Butler
The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.
John Frankenheimer
I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed by Mr. Hoover who had been appointed Director continuously. He had, I would say, a good reputation.
John Sherman Cooper
The director is the only person who knows what the film is about.
Satyajit Ray
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
Walter Hill 
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What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
Katherine Dunn
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There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
Dick Wolf
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It does make you a better director and a better actor.
Charles Keating
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How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?
Don Bluth
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I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.
John Frankenheimer
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I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.
John Frankenheimer
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Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.
Carter Burwell
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