Directors Quotes · Page 11

You learn from all directors, all these guys.

— Ryan Gosling

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

— Billy Wilder

In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

— Andrew Lau

I think every director has a different methodology.

— Cillian Murphy

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

Any movie's only as good as the director.

— Woody Harrelson

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

— Sasha Alexander

Two directors always come with two thought processes.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

— Jet Li

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

— Gia Coppola

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

— Julian Ovenden

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

— Chris Tucker

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

— Fred Durst

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

— John Frankenheimer

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

— Griffin Dunne

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

— Christopher Hitchens

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women…

— Helen Mirren

When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

— Adam F. Goldberg

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal…

— Sylvester Stallone

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially…

— Bill Skarsgard

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be…

— Al Pacino

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get…

— Olivia Wilde

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are…

— Janet Suzman

Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was…

— Dave Barry

You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend…

— Denzel Washington

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each…

— Helen Fisher

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the…

— Frank Capra

If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a…

— Amanda Plummer

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get…

— Stan Lee

I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually…

— Susanna Fogel

It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different…

— Todd Farmer

First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,…

— David Lynch

We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for…

— Bill Murray

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had…

— Carl Sagan

There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the…

— Pauline Kael

My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was…

— Meera Menon

The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there…

— Patrick Heusinger