#director

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

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

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I wanted a name that would put us first in the phone directory, or second if you count ABBA. ↗

— Martin Fry

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I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema. ↗

— Antoine Fuqua

#because #cinema #director #i #just

David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#david #days #directed #director #episodes

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#enormous #extraordinary #fan #howard #i

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#cast #contribution #director #film #fit

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#chords #composer #directors #distributing #far

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people. ↗

— Ray Harryhausen

#director #had #i #never #patience