Director Quotes · Page 16

When I do a film, I try and see how in tune I am with the director.

— R. Madhavan

If the script is good, the cast and director good, I'll go anywhere.

— Ken Watanabe

I've seen what a difference a good director can make to an actor's performance.

— Soha Ali Khan

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

— Adam Shankman

I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

— Daniel Espinosa

One needs to have a comfort level with the director.

— Saqib Saleem

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

— Tommy Wiseau

Every director should take an acting class.

— Paul Feig

Wading into a sell-out 3,500 crowd to separate hooligans throwing punches is not what I expected as director of football at a…

— Robbie Savage

Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not…

— Juliette Lewis

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how…

— Paul Feig

When I came to know that director Sujoy Ghosh wanted me for a role in a Hindi film, I was very surprised.…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I started off as an assistant director in Mani Ratnam's 'Ayudha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva.'

— Karthi

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me…

— Niall Matter

I wasn't a star and I wasn't a handsome person, so I thought I would become a burden for director Shin Won…

— Seo In-guk

The first movie I did was 'Dan in Real Life,' which was directed by Peter Hedges, the same director who did 'The…

— CJ Adams

The first documentary I saw that tried to show the actual experience of being a soldier in combat was 'The Anderson Platoon,'…

— Kevin Macdonald

Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have…

— David Leitch

I don't think I could have made a good movie out of 'Thor 2' because I wasn't the right director. And I…

— Patty Jenkins

I don't have a favorite process. My favorite process is the right process for the person I am working with. I can…

— Marion Cotillard

I think it makes such a huge difference when the director has acting experience as well because it just means that he…

— Lucy Boynton

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me…

— Jeffrey Wright

The big trick is just to get to a point where we're just considered DPs, and we're not 'female DPs.' When you…

— Rachel Morrison

I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a…

— Abi Morgan

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

— William Shatner

No one works with an actor or a director for friendship.

— Govinda

I believe in the power that a casting director has.

— Betty Gabriel

As a director I like to be very invisible. I don't like to be noticed.

— David Nutter

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

— Ryan Gosling

Marlon was more of a formal zoo director type.

— Jim Fowler

If I feel that the director doesn't trust my abilities, I don't work with him.

— Devi Sri Prasad

You have to be flexible according to patterns and needs of director.

— Mohit Raina

Like I already revealed, I once hit a director with a slipper.

— Mumtaj

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

— Ben Kingsley

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

— Jennifer Lawrence

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

— Suniel Shetty

I was the personnel director there with the Cowboys.

— Jimmy Johnson

I would have loved to have been a director.

— Robert Fuller

I think I'm a director that is very easily misunderstood.

— Takashi Miike

Rituparno Ghosh is a legendary director, and I happen to be a huge fan of his.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui