Directors Quotes · Page 21

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

— John Waters

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

— Jerry Weintraub

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

— Asia Argento

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

— Liev Schreiber

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

— J. Michael Straczynski

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

— Johnny Depp

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with…

— Craig Ferguson

I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got…

— Arin Paul

My husband John Thaw worked with many directors, some of whom cut their teeth working on the 'Sweeney,' 'Kavanagh QC' and 'Morse'…

— Sheila Hancock

The great thing about women directors is that they're not only involved in the performances - they can gauge where we all…

— Billie Lourd

I can't tell you how many incredible directors I long to work with, but then I look at their IMDb page, and…

— Jessica Chastain

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around…

— Dean Cain

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me…

— Niall Matter

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people…

— John Carpenter

To seek out making films that are unique and insightful, boundary-pushing and genre-bending, and not films that fit into the neat, little…

— Rania Attieh

I don't like working for directors that the second you're in a rehearsal they start telling you what to do - 'Don't…

— Robert Fuller

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,…

— Jim Jarmusch

The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their…

— Laozi

To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather…

— Woody Allen

I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now.…

— Colin Firth

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get,…

— Drew Barrymore

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…

— Richard Leakey

When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them…

— Donald Sutherland

Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never…

— Pia Zadora

Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a…

— Andy Greenwald

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in…

— Daniel Radcliffe

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire…

— Paul Auster

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

— Javier Bardem

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

I think directors who care about their work should be invested.

— Robert B. Weide

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

— Louis C. K

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

— Gabrielle Union

Rituparno Ghosh and Bharathirajaa are two directors who were born to direct.They can make even a stone act.

— Riya Sen

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

— Peter Falk

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh