Director Quotes · Page 15

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

— Sondra Locke

You can't discuss everything with a male director.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

— Orlando Bloom

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

— B. J. Novak

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

— Martin Landau

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

— Bel Powley

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

— Celine Sciamma

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one…

— Kishore Kumar

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that…

— Donnie Yen

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

— Milos Forman

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage,…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I…

— Julian Dennison

For two years I was a member of a repertory company in Los Angeles, doing mostly original material, plays written by the…

— Judy Norton

My criteria has always been the script, director and character. But I also attach importance to the production house. After all, the…

— Koel Mallick

Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all…

— Park Chan-wook

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques…

— Elvis Mitchell

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a…

— Adam Rapp

I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this…

— Melina Matsoukas

When 'Humsafar' did well, every single person associated with it shined. Its DoP [Director of Photography], Shehzad Kashmiri, went on to become…

— Mahira Khan

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is…

— Andy Serkis

I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And…

— Melissa Leo

When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I…

— Barbara Sukowa

With movies, depending on who your director is or what kind of movie you're shooting, you kind of have more of an…

— Sarah Wright

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie…

— Yuliya Snigir

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other…

— Denis Villeneuve

In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music…

— Ennio Morricone

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the…

— Luca Guadagnino

It's a lot for one director to do six hours, particularly in the Marvel way.

— Kate Herron

Drew was a director, and I'm a magician.

— Jonathan Scott

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

— Shekhar Kapur

I never wanted to be a creative director.

— Alessandro Michele

My father was the Florida state director of The Nature Conservancy.

— Hank Green

I think theatre is an actor's medium, while cinema is a director's medium.

— Manoj Bajpayee

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

— John Lasseter

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

— Harold Prince

The cinematographer's basically translating the director's vision into imagery.

— Rachel Morrison