Director Quotes · Page 18

Everybody want famous, like me to be a famous director.

— Andrew Lau

Since I surrender myself to the director, it is important for me to trust him.

— Jisshu Sengupta

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

— Kevin Munroe

It's a dream for a director, at least to try a studio movie.

— Michel Hazanavicius

More than anything else, I love to act and leave the rest to my director.

— Nana Patekar

I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

— Taylor Schilling

If your director knows what he wants on screen, it makes things easier.

— Sai Pallavi

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

— Fred Durst

I certainly have opinions about things, but we're a service organization. Our job is to try and realize the director's vision.

— John Knoll

Certainly as a director you want to be working with people who are on the same page as you and that you…

— Robert Eggers

I figure, I want to get a role on my ability, not my size. And anyway, after the director or producer sees…

— Ted Cassidy

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

— Griffin Dunne

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

— Julia Stiles

I like to be able to understand the feeling of the director, that a film corresponds to something in his life. Otherwise,…

— Louis Garrel

The head coach is the director, the quarterback is the lead actor and the offensive linemen are the grips.

— Howie Long

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the…

— John Patrick Shanley

The main idea of making a movie is to provide entertainment. But as a director, I also say what I want to…

— Kabir Khan

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror;…

— Jane Campion

I've been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background…

— Anne-Marie Duff

For me, a director is such an important part of thE process. I really have to trust him. Because then you can…

— Juno Temple

I'm not someone that wants to control everything. I like to work with people that bring their talents to the project. So…

— Monica Bellucci

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be…

— Anton Corbijn

My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the…

— David Milch

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

— Guillaume Canet

I'll never be a music director... I'm not cut out for that.

— KK

It's not like I woke up one day and said, 'Okay, I want to become a director.'

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

— Lexa Doig

I think there is more cohesion when you have one director on set.

— Sam Esmail

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

— Adam McKay

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

— Limmy

The best director is the one you don't see.

— Billy Wilder

I always felt like as the director, I gotta be the best at everything.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.

— Greig Fraser

TV is more the director's medium. You can be edited right out.

— Leslie Uggams

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

— Jiang Wen

James Mangold is such a brilliant director.

— Monica Barbaro

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

— Josh Radnor

I have realised I am a director's actor.

— Suniel Shetty

I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director.

— Sarita Choudhury