Directors Quotes · Page 24

I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.

— Ram Charan

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

— Jackie Chan

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

— John Frankenheimer

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

— Jackie Chan

I've been incredibly lucky with the directors I've worked with.

— John Hurt

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

— Jason Reitman

I want to be a part of the best movies that are being made, and to work with the best directors.

— Vaani Kapoor

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

— Corey Feldman

'Drive' came to me because the casting director knew my manager and called and said, 'You've always talked to me about Albert…

— Albert Brooks

The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I've learned from every director I've worked with. Everybody's style is very different, and I always say that being an actor is…

— Lake Bell

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if…

— Angelina Jolie

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and…

— Jean Dujardin

The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do…

— Jim Dale

I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages…

— Jeff Bridges

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to…

— Stacey Dash

When you are the avatar for the writer/director, a lot of times, I just trusted him. If he had a choice, even…

— Matt Bomer

All I wanted to do was be a professional film director with a body of work, and you're going to make some…

— Michael Caton-Jones

I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Actors have seven tracks going in their minds: They've got all the research they've done for the part, then they have whatever…

— Tobin Bell

I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or…

— David Gilmour

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain…

— Todd Solondz

The thing that has helped me the most has been surrounding myself with a strong community of people with common interests and…

— Liza Johnson

In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can…

— Meryl Streep

The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I…

— John Hurt

The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those…

— Orson Welles

Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very…

— Alan Chambers

I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is…

— Adam Richman

I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to…

— Robert Pattinson

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's…

— Lenny Kravitz

You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows…

— Ernest Lehman

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

— Viggo Mortensen

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

— D. W. Griffith

People believe I am selective. I am not. Directors pick me, not I them.

— Victor Banerjee

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.

— William H. Macy

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

— Adrian Pasdar

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

— Orson Welles