#director

Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#directors #good #heart #here #matter

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. ↗

— Emma Watson

#directors #i #i love #love #mexican

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#climbed #day #director #i #limb

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#midwife #must #policeman #psychoanalyst

The best director is the one you don't see. ↗

— Billy Wilder

#director #see #you

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important. ↗

— Robert Wise

#his #i #i think #important #know

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#angeles #article #bad #career #director

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #cameraman #dad #designer #director

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor. ↗

— Lee Grant

#african #african american #ahead #allowing #american