Directors Quotes · Page 13

I had a whole new respect for directors.

— John Leguizamo

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

— Louis Mann

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

— Penelope Spheeris

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

— James Franco

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

— Robert Loggia

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

— Brahmanandam

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

— Brett Ratner

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

— David Yates

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

— Frances McDormand

Both Peter Chan and Wong Kar Wai are directors that I respect very much.

— Zhao Wei

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

— Andrea Arnold

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

— Ian Mckellen

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

— Fede Alvarez

There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.

— Eric Braeden

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

— Shaan

I think one of the reasons movies are the quintessential modern art form is that it is partially a business. The director…

— Roger Corman

I think a lot of good directors listen to music while they're working. The songs just don't become a part of the…

— Ben Folds

It's great to have a good relationship with the directors and learn about things you do with cameras, and how you direct.

— Gaten Matarazzo

Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if…

— Tom Stoppard

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to…

— Famke Janssen

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

— James Wan

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge…

— Nate Parker

When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas…

— Alan Bennett

Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the…

— Colin Firth

Sometimes I go to the cinema and I see a movie where the directors or the filmmakers are telling me what to…

— Pablo Larrain

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and…

— Mara Wilson

When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each…

— Gary Busey

I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of…

— William Monahan

Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in…

— Anonymous

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual…

— James Cameron

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He…

— Edward Norton

The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not…

— James Berardinelli

In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack…

— Terry Rossio

I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and…

— Tom Hanks

3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing…

— Steven Spielberg

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of…

— Indro Montanelli

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's…

— Christopher Hitchens

We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record…

— Edward Snowden