Directors Quotes

I don't think I worked with wrong directors.

— Zayed Khan

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

— Ted Kotcheff

Directors were apprehensive in trying comedy with me.

— Kunal Khemu

I never wanted to be a director.

— Albert Brooks

Gotta watch out for directors.

— Stephen Sondheim

I have a greed to work with good directors.

— Neha Dhupia

Directors who know what they want come to me.

— Rekha

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

— Brahmanandam

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

— Ida Lupino

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.

— Kristen Stewart

I care a lot about who I'm working with as directors and other actors.

— Stephan James

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

— Norman Lear

The script is what you've dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

— George Lucas

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

— Woody Allen

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

— Carmen Ejogo

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

— Kelly Lynch

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of…

— Arne Glimcher

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired…

— Joe Pantoliano

It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.

— Darnell M. Hunt

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming…

— Park Chan-wook

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more…

— Shiri Appleby

When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need…

— Nicholas Stoller

I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do…

— Randy Harrison

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid…

— Billy Wilder

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've…

— Kristen Stewart

It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)…

— Tadeusz Kantor

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and…

— Eric Balfour

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you…

— Eric Balfour

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of…

— William Godwin

“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that…

— Ayn Rand

I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written…

— Lily Collins

When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them…

— Donald Sutherland

Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a…

— Andy Greenwald

Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never…

— Pia Zadora

Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in…

— Daniel Radcliffe

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire…

— Paul Auster

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good…

— Samuel Morse

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken