William Shatner Quotes

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

As a director, I love being able to really be a contributing factor to the overall vision of a project.

I believe that, by directing, it makes me a better executive as well.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

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

If I wanted to have total control and be a dictator, I would do ice sculpture in my basement. If I want to make a movie, I'm going to work with 500 people, and I will have to work with their strength and their weakness.

I like working as a director most.

I do like directing other people's material.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

Being a director, just to begin with, is just, I think, one of the hardest jobs just because you have to work in every way. You have to work with actors, you have to be involved with the producers and the writing and the action. Every department comes to you; you have to deal with everything.

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.

I've been in charge all my damn life, but executive producing is teamwork. You're involved with every aspect of the production, from casting to locations, everything.

If the director has clarity of thought and vision, you are bound to just go ahead and do what he wants to do. I respect that.

Often, particularly towards the end of the process, I think of myself less as a theatre director and more as someone who just directs the traffic. My job is to move the ideas and bits of the show into the places where they work best. Sometimes my job is also to say, 'No.'

I've been mayor for five years. I've led a city. And directed a police department. I know how to use resources.

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

Directing is such alchemy, it's so easy to fail. And I've seen people who are great at their jobs because everybody has a go. Editors, DPs, actors, craft services guy, everybody wants to try it out but it is such a diffuse but necessary set of skills that you never know which one this person might lack.

When I'm working as a director, I might have an idea of my own but I'm also trying to get great ideas out of my actors. Directing is much more psychological - it's a lot like being a general. And you have to be organized. While you're making a film, you have between 2 and 500 people asking you a billion questions.