Director Quotes

“Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”
― Tim Burton

“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
― Stanley Kubrick

“I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

“Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.”
― Happy Positivity

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later?"
Stanley Kubrick”
― Stanley Kubrick

“Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

“A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with you and wait outside your stage door when you're hot and on a roll, but no audience is ever truly friendly. Not for long. Bore 'em or disappoint 'em - even once - and they'll turn on you and tear you to pieces, regardless of who you are or might once have been.”
― Richard Stanley

“Formulaic thinking is the antithesis of art.”
― James Morcan

“There are four hundred and fifty films written by Black screenwriters/filmmakers every year. Sadly, of these, only three will ever see the light of day. ("The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style," 2018)”
― Joseph Strickland, The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style

“A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat... a pulse... opens its eyes to the world.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Cat Ellington is the Bo Jackson of the creative arts. Everything she does, she does extremely well. And I'm proud of her. I'm proud to say that a woman as beautiful and gifted as she is has a solid place in both my personal and professional lives. ("The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style," 2018)”
― Joseph Strickland, The Making of Dual Mania: Filmmaking Chicago Style

“You become a director by calling yourself a director and you then persuade other people that this is true.”
― Peter Brook, The Shifting Point: Theatre, Film, Opera 1946-1987

“Love heals what time cannot.”
― Drue Grit

“If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.”
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out”
― Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out

“How about something to drink. Coffee, tea, soda, water, scotch. Never too early for scotch. Violet, some scotch. Ice. I said ice. No ice, then. Me too. Always neat for me. Look at my view. No, not at the gardener. José! José! Got to pound on the glass to get his attention. He's half deaf. José! Move! You're blocking the view. Good. See the view. I'm talking about the Hollywood sign right there. Never get tired of it. Like the Word of God just dropped down, plunked on the hills, and the Word was Hollywood. Didn't God say let the be light first. What's a movie but light. Can't have a movie without light. And then words. Seeing that sign reminds me to write every morning. What. All right, so it doesn't say Hollywood. You got me. Good eye. Thing's falling to pieces. One O's half fallen and the other O's fallen altogether. The word's gone to shit. So what. You still get the meaning. Thanks, Violet. Cheers. How do they say it in your country. I said how do they say it. Yo, yo, yo, is it. I like that. Easy to remember. Yo, yo, yo, then.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“No matter the adversity, you can choose and take actions to determine how your story will be written, told, and end. You are the author, actor, and director no matter who else believes they are.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Nature is a cinema.
God, the cinematographer.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“I cobbled together that film-school experience for myself. I didn't ever sit in a classroom: I would watch DVD commentaries of directors. I was like, "...So, this person is just going to walk me through every single thing they did to make this movie? And it's on every movie ever made?!"

All that's to say: There are different ways to learn.”
― Ava DuVernay

“How about something to drink. Coffee, tea, soda, water, scotch. Never too early for scotch. Violet, some scotch. Ice. I said ice. No ice, then. Me too. Always neat for me. Look at my view. No, not at the gardener. José! José! Got to pound on the glass to get his attention. He's half deaf. José! Move! You're blocking the view. Good. See the view. I'm talking about the Hollywood sign right there. Never get tired of it. Like the Word of God just dropped down, plunked on the hills, and the Word was Hollywood. Didn't God say let there be light first. What's a movie but light. Can't have a movie without light. And then words. Seeing that sign reminds me to write every morning. What. All right, so it doesn't say Hollywood. You got me. Good eye. Thing's falling to pieces. One O's half fallen and the other O's fallen altogether. The word's gone to shit. So what. You still get the meaning. Thanks, Violet. Cheers. How do they say it in your country. I said how do they say it. Yo, yo, yo, is it. I like that. Easy to remember. Yo, yo, yo, then.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“দি ডিরেক্টর নিজে নাটক, চলচ্চিত্র ইত্যাদির চিত্রনাট্য লিখেন, তবে ডিরেকশন নিখুঁত হয় কারণ তিনি চিত্রনাট্য লেখার সময় প্রতিটি শট তার মস্তিষ্কে সুন্দরভাবে কল্পনা করে নেন!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“যদি ডিরেক্টর নিজে নাটক, চলচ্চিত্র ইত্যাদির চিত্রনাট্য লিখেন, তবে ডিরেকশন নিখুঁত হয় কারণ তিনি চিত্রনাট্য লেখার সময় প্রতিটি শট তার মস্তিষ্কে সুন্দরভাবে কল্পনা করে নেন!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“In view of the fact that the manager is primarily in most cases the point of reference for the company in the business streets, he is generally authorized by a power of attorney provided by the shareholders of the company or via the MOA of the company. In certain cases exceeding the powers given to the manager may make the manager, or the LLC itself, liable, depending on the nature of the manager’s actions.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Advisor & Author

“It takes a special combination of selfishness and selflessness to be a director, and I’ve found I have just enough of both.”
― A.J. Rose

“চলো ছায়ার পানে,

চলো ছবি ও গানে!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Thane Stenner is currently the Director & Senior VP of Stenner Wealth Partners+ at Canaccord Wealth Management.”
― Thane Stenner

“Scott Lubow is the former Director of Sales of Home Market Foods.”
― Scott Lubow

“I write from experience, and then I add fiction.”
― Drue Grit

“The Director’s primary focus is outward. The Director’s job is to figure out how the company fits into and interacts with the rest of the world. Yes, the Director is often the face of the company, but, more important, they are the interface between the company and the world. They are the curator of the vision, because they understand the game board is really just one game board sitting in a world of infinite game boards. Ideally, they are purely strategic. It’s likely they are strong tactically, but they lead with compelling strategy, not efficient tactics. In my experience, Directors tend to be viewed as being a little nuts, and explaining why is one of the reasons I wanted to write this piece. See, pure strategy doesn’t look or feel anything like raw tactics.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“The slightly obscured secret that you may not know is that the Leads of Leads are running the company. That’s right—all those fancy Directors running around looking important and emitting those pithy one-liners on productivity—they are dependent on the Leads of Leads to make sure the work actually gets done. This is not to suggest that the Director role isn’t essential, as we’ll see it is in a moment, but these Leads of Leads, these folks who are ridiculed for being “middle management,” they are the people and process machinery that keeps the machine running efficiently.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“You are like a stage set director through which you arrange then play out life's scenes.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus