Directors Quotes · Page 19

I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.

— Dylan O'Brien

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

— Gary Sinise

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.

— Anonymous

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

— Willem Dafoe

If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.

— Michael Giacchino

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

— Jacques Rivette

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

— Georgina Chapman

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

— Elia Kazan

I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and…

— Mike Mills

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

— Jacques Rivette

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes,…

— David Letterman

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that…

— Natalie Portman

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors,…

— Gillian Jacobs

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of…

— Topher Grace

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things.…

— Emma Stone

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes…

— Eric Bana

I don't think there is any one route to directing… Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any…

— Mary Harron

It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do…

— Gemma Arterton

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer…

— Harold Ramis

The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones.…

— Willem Dafoe

It's very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don't hire casting directors for that.…

— Barbara Crampton

Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I…

— Pauly Shore

I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so…

— Jason Statham

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

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

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

We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record…

— Edward Snowden

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

— Michael Ironside

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's…

— Christopher Hitchens

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of…

— Indro Montanelli

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood

— Tyrese Gibson

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

— Tom Skerritt

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

— Harold Ramis

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

— Angie Stone

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

— Paul Scofield

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

— Sai Pallavi

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

— Samantha Morton