Director Quotes · Page 26

Without critical acclaim, you are just a successful commercial director, and nothing more.

— Priyadarshan

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where…

— Robert Wilson

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

— Oliver Luck

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible…

— Joseph Gatt

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

— Vera Farmiga

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing…

— Melvin Van Peebles

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

— Doug Liman

A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good…

— Michael Pena

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or…

— Kim Ki-duk

I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had…

— Tim Burton

When I first made 'Green Street' and I was considered a hot director, I pitched everybody, but there was always this feeling…

— Lexi Alexander

Getting the right script that will work at the BO and relate to the audience is what matters. You also need a…

— Radhika Pandit

If you're a documenter, you're taking a video of something in the real world you want to capture. If you're a director,…

— Michael Seibel

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because…

— Edwin Catmull

I am proud to say I'm a director's composer. People do method acting, I do method composing. I like to get into…

— Amit Trivedi

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

— Billy Wilder

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

— Beth Henley

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

— Billy Bob Thornton

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

— Isabella Rossellini

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

— Peter Marino

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls…

— Nicholas Ray

“Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.”

— Jonathan Lethem

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to…

— Jodie Foster

When 'The Master' came around, they said they wanted to try and find a part for me, and I got a text…

— Katherine Waterston

It's an honour for me to work with Rohit Shetty. He is the biggest commercial director of the country, making the biggest…

— Parineeti Chopra

Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

— Luciano Vincenzoni

If the packaging is good - the actors, director and producer - then it will work, even if the product is not…

— Nushrat Bharucha

Whenever one sees a director at work, anyone would hesitate to disturb him or her on the sets.

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I have come to Kolkata to make music, but I can't expect one director to give me work all the time.

— Anupam Roy

I love being on film sets even if I'm not acting in the film, and I'm fascinated by the work of the…

— Freddie Fox

I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

— Jack Monroe

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the…

— Sam Wanamaker

I've been a writer for years, but it was mainly as a function of trying to be a director, so I just…

— Jeff Baena

That, for me, is the only real legacy: the idea that one has left a lingering trace in people's memories. In the…

— Peter Brook

A director is a director. We shouldn't categorize one into a this or that director.

— Nani

If you have a smaller role, but if you work with a great director, they make it unforgettable.

— Udo Kier

If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the…

— Guillermo del Toro

Denzel is the type of director that its more about working with him than working for him. He wants you to be…

— Jovan Adepo