Directors Quotes · Page 29

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

— Joseph Kosinski

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

— Scott Mechlowicz

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

— Tommy Lee Jones

It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.

— Lee Unkrich

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

— Aubrie Sellers

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

— Jackie Speier

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

— Michael Pitt

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

— Kristen Stewart

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

— Xavier Dolan

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading…

— Rupert Sanders

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as…

— William H. Macy

I like working with directors I respect, who give me freedom but also give me a good base from which to work.

— Craig Revel Horwood

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're…

— Spike Jonze

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting…

— Kenneth Anger

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director…

— Josh Hartnett

In general, we like to shoot Breaking Bad like a modern day Western, and Sergio Leone is one of my all-time favorite…

— Michelle MacLaren

As a kid I was always writing and directing plays in my basement with my neighborhood cronies. But please don't get me…

— Coley Sohn

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be…

— Julie Benz

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these…

— Jason Reitman

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are.…

— Bill Condon

When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known…

— Zoe Kravitz

A great director, first, is highly intelligent. And he is also a dedicated and willing to work hard. Now those are easy…

— Roger Corman

I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at…

— Angelina Jolie

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

— Goldie Hawn

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

— Edward Tufte

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

— Joan Littlewood

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

— Anonymous

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn

With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master.

— Joel Kinnaman

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

— Jane Campion

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

— Anthony Michael Hall

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

— David Wenham

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

— Billy Wilder

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

— James Corden

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

— Alex Cox

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

— David Hockney

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