Director Quotes · Page 30

I got good recognition in the industry after working for 'Kandireega'. I traveled with director Santosh Srinivas right from the scripting stage…

— Anil Ravipudi

What is a good script without a good director or a good director without a good actor?

— Lisa Haydon

Once a composition is complete I sing the track and send it to the director. He sometimes suggests I record them in…

— Vijay Antony

I thought I'd make a really great director because I'm an actor. Like, I thought I could really direct actors.

— Joseph Morgan

When I'm on a picture, I have two bosses - the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.

— Jim Brown

Sometimes I've done small parts, like with Spike Lee, but it doesn't matter because you want to work with the director.

— Monica Bellucci

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.

— Finn Wolfhard

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

— George Cukor

I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed…

— George Cukor

I enjoyed all my films equally. I have loved working in all the movies which I signed. Whenever I used to like…

— Asha Parekh

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look,…

— Marcia Gay Harden

Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word…

— Phil LaMarr

I particularly relate to the films of Mikio Naruse and Shinichi Kamoshita, a person whose work I watched very much as a…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular…

— Roger Deakins

Every time I go in front of the camera, I have this fear of 'Oh my God, how am I going to…

— Shefali Shah

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone…

— Johan Renck

I do have weird habits when I'm directing, or even think as a director, like when I move a cup, I make…

— Neal Brennan

In a weird way, when I was looking back, I didn't know I was going to be a director until I was.

— Mike Nichols

I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.

— Nina Turner

I remember when I got my first salary, Rs 3000/- while working as an assistant director during my college summer vacation and…

— Ishita Dutta

I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.

— Ali

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

— Harold Prince

When I bagged 'Arundathi,' I don't think I knew how to act. It was because of director Shyamprasad Reddy that I delivered…

— Anushka Shetty

For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it…

— Greta Gerwig

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the…

— Patty Jenkins

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

— Jackie Chan

I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.

— Yance Ford

I don't know how to make award-winning films; I'm a director happy in making masala films.

— Raghava Lawrence

When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

— Paul Wesley

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want…

— Julian Jarrold

What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as…

— Bill Duke

I always like being a director in terms of giving acting notes and punching up on the fly.

— Matt Besser

Acting is a great life and all that, but it's the director who is really in control.

— Jackie Coogan

I had a fantastic time working on 'Twilight.' I loved our director Bill Condon. He was an absolute pleasure to work with.

— Lee Pace

But the privileges that one has enjoyed and exploited can sometimes turn against you: nobody thinks of you as a director, you…

— Sophie Marceau

I liked 'Robocop' because of the director, and it was an intelligent, big-action studio movie.

— Michael Keaton

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

— Charles Keating

I appeared in several of Dad's films - at the time, I didn't really appreciate how great a director he was.

— Charley Boorman

Compared to my previous films, 'Kaasi' is special. All credit goes to the director.

— Vijay Antony