Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

- Andy Warhol

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

- Ang Lee

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work as a director.

- Andy Garcia

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

- Alexander Payne

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

- Albert Brooks

I never wanted to be a director.

- Albert Brooks

'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert wanting to play the heavy. I think he should read this.' My ears just perked up.

- Albert Brooks

A director without a vision is a catastrophe.

- Alan Arkin

I think it is very important to learn to say 'No.' I think it is sometimes important for brands or the creative director to learn to say, 'This might be on trend, but it is not right for us.'

- Aerin Lauder

There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.

- Angelina Jolie

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

- Aaron Sorkin

An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

- Andy Serkis

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

- Andy Serkis

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

- Andy Serkis

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

- Amanda Seyfried

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

- Alfred Hitchcock

I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

- Alan Rickman

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

- Adam McKay

David O. Russell is probably my favorite filmmaker. He's not only a great director, but he's also a great writer.

- Adam McKay