Director Quotes · Page 47

I have no idea what makes a director believe in me that I can sell these kind of roles.

— Izabella Scorupco

My starting point is always to read a script and have a conversation with the director about what their vision is, and…

— Ludwig Goransson

Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the…

— Stellan Skarsgard

My first film that I got right after 'Spring Awakening' was called 'Taking Woodstock,' and Ang Lee was the director.

— Jonathan Groff

The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also…

— Vin Diesel

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

— Rachel McAdams

I don't think Farah and I will make a film together. She is a director in her own right.

— Sajid Khan

Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell.

— Goldie Hawn

It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was…

— Jim Brown

I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor,…

— Kevin Bacon

You go to New York or L.A., and every waiter wants to be a writer, director or actor. But there's a common…

— Gillian Alexy

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals,…

— Josh Hartnett

I think every directing team works differently in the same manner that every director works differently. Everybody has a different personality and…

— Anthony Russo

It will be hard work. It's always hard work, and hard work from everybody within the team - technical director, mechanics, drivers,…

— David Leslie

The American Justice Department has left us with no choice. Our lawyers say that if we don't register as a foreign agent,…

— Margarita Simonyan

I would love to act in the remake of 'Pushpak.' However, I would expect to be given the same freedom that director…

— Tinnu Anand

I have never asked anyone for an assignment; never asked a producer or a director for a role.

— Rekha

When film director T.K. Rajeevkumar cast me in the role of the iconic Rathi in the new edition of 'Rathinirvedam,' I had…

— Shweta Menon

I never choose films because of its starcast - the director and the story are the most important factors for me.

— Amaal Mallik

I am an actor who gets into a role only when the director says 'action' and gets out of it with 'cut.'

— Mahesh Manjrekar

If you're a director presenting a new idea, and the person who can judge whether or not it goes ahead is in…

— Edwin Catmull

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really…

— Alex Graves

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a…

— Drew Barrymore

On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for…

— Mahesh Babu

I don't take anything for granted from any director. I am just a slave of my director.

— Manoj Bajpayee

I am a director's actor. It is a director's medium, definitely. That doesn't mean I stop using my head.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.

— Maddie Hasson

I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a writer. He's a director.

— Amanda Warren

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

— Cameron Crowe

I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. 'Bullets Over Broadway' is the only film…

— Douglas Wood

As a cinematographer or director, I'm always looking for projects that are able to say a lot with the actor's expressions.

— Reed Morano

The rehearsal process is the biggest gift you can give to the director and to yourself as an actor because it allows…

— Michael Gracey

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director…

— Sharat Saxena

The director Vetri Raman proves, yet again, why Tamil film industry is a forward-thinking industry in the country today, producing gems year…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

— Emma Kenney

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

— Chris Messina

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's…

— Craig Revel Horwood

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited…

— Arbaaz Khan