#director

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#how #i #know #majority #talk

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. ↗

— Edward Tufte

#engineer #father #governments #his #life

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#charge #directly #director #film #hired

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

#certainly #checks #directors #like #many

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

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if you get prizes or large audiences, then you get more money for your next film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#awards #because #conditions #directors #film

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#child #contrary #difficult #director #disturbing

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#any #asked #directors #films #i