Directors Quotes · Page 22

Here's the problem: women directors are not allowed to fail.

— Niki Caro

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

— Terence Stamp

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

— Adam Rapp

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

— Mackenzie Astin

I am a professional and maintain good rapport with all my producers, directors and co-artists.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

— Stanley Tucci

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

— DeVon Franklin

When I was a young stunt guy the director would say: "You're useless..." But I wanted to be the best, I wanted…

— Jackie Chan

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.

— Christine Swanson

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

— Peter Jackson

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

— Steven Spielberg

If you have the right actors and you can give them the freedom to explore, you've done a lot of your work…

— Andy Garcia

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're…

— Janeane Garofalo

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop,…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I'm reading Joe Eszterhas biography; it's fabulous. Every time he made a movie, he fought with the director or the producer over…

— Chris Matthews

I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the…

— David Douglas

The play I was doing [on a Broadway ], I was playing an obnoxious, outspoken kid, so [the director James Lapine ]…

— David Krumholtz

Recognition has brought me more work, because your name suddenly comes to mind when some directors are trying to cast a character.…

— Viola Davis

[The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is…

— Susan Minot

Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in…

— Warren MacKenzie

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it…

— Billy Bob Thornton

Stepping out of the director's chair completely and into a scene as an actor was weird. It was more excitement about directing…

— Eric Balfour

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think…

— Abigail Disney

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good…

— Samuel Morse

I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with…

— Jim Jarmusch

Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I…

— Kirk Douglas

To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold…

— Henry Jackman

In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee,…

— Paul Bettany

Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because…

— Jack Jason

I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you…

— Jude Law

Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning…

— Jackie Chan

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

— Bong Joon-ho

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

— Anonymous

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

— Alan Parker

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.

— Marielle Heller

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

— Amrita Rao