#dire

I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#die #directing #i #i love #love

The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels. ↗

— William Friedkin

#actor #communicate #communication #create #direction

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#hard #much #pay #takes #time

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing. ↗

— John Foster

#american #combine #curious #direct #directors

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action. ↗

— John Foster

#bring #directors #filming #films #i

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#behind #camera #certain #certain things #control

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business. ↗

— John Frankenheimer

#because #business #directors #ever #first

I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#antipathy #because #concerned #director #expressed

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#bill clinton #burst #clinton #closets #compass

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#ends #place #proper #right #sadism