Directors Quotes · Page 27

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

— Denzel Washington

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

— Mario Lopez

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

— Brent Sexton

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

— Frank Darabont

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

— Jessica Savitch

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have…

— David Leitch

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All…

— John Kricfalusi

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something…

— David Ayer

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

— Delhi Ganesh

I love acting and I hope I'm fortunate enough to get good, interesting roles and I hope directors and producers will keep…

— Sophie Nelisse

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits…

— Luke Evans

"You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was…

— James Patterson

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with…

— Colin Farrell

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really…

— Charlie Kaufman

I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am…

— Larry Charles

There's this sense of being strange, which is at the heart of every creative person. Every writer, every actor, every director knows…

— Anthony Minghella

I see how complicated it is to make a film and how many people are involved and I love the fact that…

— Markus Zusak

After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only…

— Sean Connery

The best compliment I ever got from the public or producers or directors is that I just totally blend in and become…

— Anonymous

Wayne Wang, the director, really helped me become a more mature actress. When I first started filming, I was really over the…

— AnnaSophia Robb

At any given day you have to be ready with everything. It can be that the director says "this one's done and…

— Daniel Simon

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

— Denis O'Hare

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

— Dino Morea

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

— Kathleen Turner

I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

— Barack Obama

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

— Peter Travers

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

— Twyla Tharp

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.

— Kathleen Kennedy

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

— Douglas Booth

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

— Jane Fonda

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

— Diane Kruger

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

— Kevin Hart

I know there were things emanating from me. I was not aware of what attracted all these directors to me.

— Jeanne Moreau

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

— Alden Ehrenreich

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

— Jordi Molla

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

— Michelle Pfeiffer