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One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: Why should it be a crime to make a movie? A finished film, well, it can get banned but not the director.

So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid auteur theory again, that the director is the author of the film. But what does the director shoot-the telephone book? Writers became much more important when sound came in, but they’ve had to put up a valiant fight to get the credit they deserve.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films over and over.

Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to do.