He's not a director, he's a dictator.

-Monroe, Marilyn pseudonym of  Norma Jean Baker
c.1959  On Billy Wilder, the director of Some Like It Hot, attributed.

There'sno suchthing as anactor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer†', that director's going to hate your guts.Particularly if it's a good idea.

-Mullan, Peter
  In a question and answer session at the National Film Theatre, London, 4 Nov.

The best films are the best because of no one but the director.

-Polanski, Roman
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Book of Quotes (1973).

   My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

-Porter, Cole
  Interview, 8 Feb.

   A director makes only one film in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

-Renoir,Jean
Quoted in Leslie Halliwell Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1993).