Directors Quotes · Page 14

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 never wanted to be a director.

— Albert Brooks

Directors were apprehensive in trying comedy with me.

— Kunal Khemu

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

— Ted Kotcheff

I don't think I worked with wrong directors.

— Zayed Khan

Be what we make, and not who we are.

— Catherine Breillat

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

— Guillermo del Toro

I've slept with a few directors but still didn't get the part. Isn't that strange?

— Naomi Watts

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

— Peter Diamandis

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

— Chaske Spencer

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

— Kyle MacLachlan

I don't mind any role as long as I get to work with good directors.

— Riya Sen

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.

— Dennis Haysbert

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

You basically go in animation and it's all in the imagination. There aren't even pictures to look at. You usually go in…

— John Noble

It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the…

— Natalie Dormer

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies…

— Parker Posey

To be honest, more than what I prepare, it's the directors who do the bulk of the work, researching, collecting data and…

— Dhanush

Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work.…

— John Hurt

Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.

— Condola Rashad

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think…

— Sofia Coppola

I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't…

— Danny Trejo

It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in…

— Larry Fessenden

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how…

— Isabelle Huppert

I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star.…

— Joseph M. Kahn

Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American…

— Manny Farber

It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find…

— Ewan McGregor

It's so sad to me [see the director's versions of films] because it shows how the filmmaker never got to make the…

— Sonia Braga

Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going…

— Eric Balfour

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.'…

— Ryan Reynolds

One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation…

— Michael Ironside

I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version…

— William Monahan

It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a…

— Judd Nelson

In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these…

— Leila Fadel

Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths,…

— Michael Crichton

I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript,…

— Renee Watson

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.…

— Michel Legrand

There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it…

— Lukas Moodysson