Directors Quotes · Page 28

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

— M. Jayachandran

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

— Ray Stevenson

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

— Elia Kazan

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

— David Hemmings

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

— Asia Argento

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

— Ed Helms

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

— Cillian Murphy

We haven't seen a situation where you have the FBI director talk about an investigation side by side with the attorney general…

— Alberto Gonzales

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director,…

— Stephen Baldwin

Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to…

— Dito Montiel

In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the…

— Drew Goddard

I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write…

— Topher Grace

Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was…

— Walt Dohrn

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

— David Ogilvy

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's…

— Morgan Freeman

Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the…

— Simon Pegg

But, it takes some of the characters to some very dark places, and they start doing things that they might not do,…

— Kyra Zagorsky

My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of…

— Leon Jouhaux

I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take.…

— Jason Reitman

[ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if…

— Alden Ehrenreich

I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had…

— Kenny G

The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy…

— Evgeny Morozov

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

— Roger Ebert

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

— Idris Elba

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

— Don Johnson

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

— Ed Skrein

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

— Gaspar Noe

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

— Paramahansa Yogananda

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

— Famke Janssen

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

— Jack Nicholson

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

— Marc Ribot

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

— Akira Kurosawa

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

— Will Friedle

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

— Mark Mothersbaugh