When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes. – Harold E. Varmus
So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director’s need to be a director than any particular story. – Jill Soloway
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. – Joe Eszterhas
Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or… So everybody understands the hours. – Julie Benz
Especially as a director on ‘West Wing,’ I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings. – Alex Graves
I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid. – Bernie Mac
I think the atmosphere on set really comes from the material, but also the director. – Cate Blanchett