#dire

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#articulate #collaborator #david #director #easy

I had no plans to be a director. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#had #i #plans

The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two. ↗

— David Fincher

#fact #five #get #going #got

The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#direct #english #heart #how #i

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#cannot #director #importance

I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#ask #business #care #director #doing

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#consists #direction #doing #done #each

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#else #i #imagine #script #someone

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality. ↗

— Morris Graves

#changing #direct #evoke #i #language

You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#any #artist #believe #circumstances #director