Directors Quotes · Page 20

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

— Eli Roth

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.

— Scott Hicks

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

— Carter Burwell

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

— Barry Pepper

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

— Jay Baruchel

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

— Michael Pitt

I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.

— Naga Chaitanya

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Mark Shurtleff

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not…

— Nick Cave

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the…

— Max Greenfield

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at…

— James Franco

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how…

— Paul Feig

I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had…

— Tim Burton

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to…

— Leonard Nimoy

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible.…

— Brigitte Bardot

That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was…

— Barry McGuire

Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have…

— Andre Holland

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead…

— O. Henry

I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the…

— Ray McGovern

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did…

— Ray Liotta

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at…

— Bill Murray

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing…

— Kenneth Lonergan

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson…

— Wynton Marsalis

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

I feel like I've been very lucky with the directors. The characters I've been offered, especially lately, have given me the opportunity…

— Penelope Cruz

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people;…

— Paul Theroux

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

— Bo Derek

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

— Vijay Antony

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

— William Monahan

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall

Some directors work from day to day. I work from moment to moment.

— George A. Romero

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

— Jeremy Piven