1. "become a director of CamMac, when you’re twenty-one."
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Quintin Jardine, Funeral Note
2. "A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard."
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Billy Wilder, Billy Wilder in Hollywood
3. "You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head."
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Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up
4. "A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again."
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Quote by Jean Renoir
5. "their main role is that of a catalyst, not a director. They make it possible for the magic to happen."
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Tom DeMarco, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
6. "You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up."
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Quote by Daniel Handler
7. "Nothing suits a director any better than to hop on a train with his company and go somewhere, no matter where it is, as long as he can get away from the studio. —William Fox, December 27, 1917"
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Jon Lewis, Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method
8. "How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling warm makes you coffee, like liking movies makes you a director. How utterly incorrect to think it any other way, a box of crap is treasures, a boy smiling means it, a gentle moment is a life improved."
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Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up
9. "I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank?"
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Quote by Harlan Ellison
10. "Hence that morganatic bond between the forces of the left and the forces of the right (a director of a big steel company, the co-owner of a great department store, a figure high in the Republican organization, come quickly to mind) which made confusing common cause in exculpating Hiss by defaming Chambers."
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Whittaker Chambers, Witness