Directors Quotes · Page 15

You don't usually meet directors on the streets.

— Jason Statham

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

— Jamie Babbit

You either are a good director or you're not.

— Rebecca Hall

I think all directors should be animators...

— Steven Spielberg

“A CEO is a board of directors personified.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

— Angelina Jolie

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

— Dermot Mulroney

I just want to work with good directors and good people.

— Charlie Hunnam

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

— Philip Kaufman

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

— John Slattery

I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.

— Shraddha Srinath

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

— Melanie Laurent

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

— Jodie Foster

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the…

— Russell Crowe

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly…

— Sam Mendes

I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at…

— Madeleine Stowe

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting…

— Nicole Ari Parker

Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I…

— Katherine Helmond

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

— Donnie Yen

I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed…

— George Cukor

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work…

— James Franco

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood…

— Stellan Skarsgard

It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they…

— William Mapother

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh…

— Robert De Niro

When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked…

— David Sharp

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the…

— Pauly Shore

Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever…

— David Carradine

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this…

— Seth Shostak

I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations…

— Wes Craven

Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des…

— Sebastian Smee

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's…

— Dustin Hoffman

Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:…

— Jeffrey Zeldman

Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape…

— Edward Albee

I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave…

— Edward Snowden

“Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the…

— Christian Bale

The criteria [to take or refuse the role] is that I would love to have some kind of dialogue or communication with…

— Mads Mikkelsen

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

— Rob Zombie

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

— Ryan Reynolds

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson