All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

Shaji Kailas is an amazing director.

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

I have been an art director, a book designer, a book-jacket designer and an interior designer.

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

Sometime ago, I went for a film festival in San Francisco and that's where I met film director Warren Foster and actors Robert Parham and Randy Taylor, by chance.

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.