Directors Quotes · Page 18

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

— Jason Reitman

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

— Mark Rydell

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

— Judd Nelson

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I…

— Maynard Webb

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want…

— Rob Reiner

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,…

— Alan J. Pakula

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.…

— Aldous Huxley

Truthfully, most directors don't direct actors. Every actor is different, so when you're asked, "How do you approach an actor?," it depends…

— John Landis

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a…

— Roland Joffe

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

— Julia Stiles

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

— Jamie Dornan

In my last year of drama school, I was Abigail in 'The Crucible' and Nina in 'The Seagull,' and I did some…

— Kimberley Nixon

I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with…

— Toby Jones

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you…

— Robert Duvall

In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing…

— Baran Odar

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.…

— Danny Boyle

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All…

— Sally Hawkins

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors…

— Albert Brooks

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

— Glenn McQuaid

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

— Michel Legrand

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

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

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

— Jeffrey Zeldman

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

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

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

— John Hurt

Directors and actors are people whose career spans are very short.

— Sunny Singh

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

— Anonymous

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

— Gaspard Ulliel