director quotes

He's not a director, he's a dictator.

- Marilyn pseudonym of  Norma Jean Baker Monroe
c.1959  On Billy Wilder, the director of Some Like It Hot, attributed.

There'sno suchthing as anactor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer†', that director's going to hate your guts.Particularly if it's a good idea.

- Peter Mullan
  In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.

The best films are the best because of no one but the director.

- Roman Polanski
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973).

   My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

- Cole Porter
  Interview, 8 Feb.

   A director makes only one film in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

-Jean Renoir
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993).