Directors Quotes · Page 17

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

— Naomi Watts

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

— John Cassavetes

I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are.

— Sean Baker

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

— Roger Corman

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

— Tyler Perry

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.

— Shraddha Kapoor

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

— Luke Evans

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale…

— Michael Apted

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

— Howard Shore

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

— Audrey Tautou

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted…

— Rod Serling

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a…

— Rebecca Eaton

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started…

— Tate Donovan

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of…

— Whit Stillman

Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with…

— Owen Gleiberman

The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was,…

— Robert Kazinsky

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to…

— Judd Nelson

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely…

— Summer Glau

I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that…

— Josh Peck

By the way, I'm not sure the managing director who was 50 in 2005 understood that the job had changed - that…

— Ken Moelis

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most…

— Warren Farrell

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

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

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

— Edward Albee

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

— Mads Mikkelsen

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

— Christian Bale

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

— Amy Smart

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

— Michael Sucsy

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

— Melanie Griffith

The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.

— Alexandre Desplat

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

— Richard Farnsworth

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

— Michael Pitt

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook