Directors Quotes · Page 16

I don't choose my directors, but I choose my scripts wisely.

— Vijay Sethupathi

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

I never had any problem with my producers or directors.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

— Barkhad Abdi

I don't make trouble on sets. I think directors like me, so they hire me, but they have to fight for me.

— Joe Don Baker

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

— Natalie Portman

One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in…

— Zak Penn

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their…

— Roger Ebert

With the most interesting directors, the cast comes together to make something magical that nobody counted on.

— Susan Sarandon

I act once in awhile if something comes up that seems fun. I like to do it - its a lot of…

— Rob Reiner

I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the…

— Clint Eastwood

There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard…

— Valeria Golino

Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for…

— Sunny Deol

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct…

— Elizabeth Banks

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all…

— Mika Brzezinski

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to…

— Cary Fukunaga

I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition,…

— Rob Urbinati

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the…

— Patti LuPone

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of…

— Jimmy Fallon

Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and…

— Ian Mckellen

The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my…

— Anne Bogart

But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good…

— Emily Deschanel

The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little…

— Glenn McQuaid

I think bringing depth to characters means really needing to find out who this girl is, what is she passionate about, what…

— Amy Smart

Well, the film's not only pricking the pomposity of the Church, it's pricking the pomposity, and sometimes you would think fraudulence, of…

— Billy Connolly

You are also asked to take an oath, and that's the oath of service. The oath of service is not to secrecy,…

— Edward Snowden

At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.…

— Alan Rickman

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much…

— Jason Bateman

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make…

— Nicole Kidman

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

— Guillermo del Toro

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

— Clive Owen

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

— Peter Stone

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

— Morgan Saylor

I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

— Ram Charan

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

— Deepak Chopra

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

— Conrad Hall