Directors Quotes · Page 3

Be what we make, and not who we are.

— Catherine Breillat

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

— Shekhar Kapur

“turn over the reins to the board of directors.”

— Bryan Burrough

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

— Joe Wright

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

— Dakin Matthews

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

— Iain Glen

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

Any movie's only as good as the director.

— Woody Harrelson

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

— Tom Ford

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

— Scott Caan

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

— Marion Cotillard

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

— Jim McKay

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

— Paul Haggis

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

— Lotte Reiniger

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

— Lyle Lovett

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

— John Frankenheimer

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in…

— Michelle Rodriguez

There are a few directors around who I have some excitement about spending my $7 at the theatre watching their movies.

— Sean Penn

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets -…

— Antonio Banderas

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms…

— Cary Fukunaga

As a director, it's my job to provoke, and when people decided 'The Room' be called a phenomenon, or whatever you call…

— Tommy Wiseau

My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

— Yahoo Serious

It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me…

— Chris Pratt

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can…

— Jon Turteltaub

I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of…

— Pauly Shore

So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and…

— William Mapother

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's…

— Danny Elfman

That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life…

— Deborah Kara Unger

I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you…

— Lisa Kudrow

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because…

— Morgan Freeman

It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a…

— Matt Damon

In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was…

— Becki Newton

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson…

— Wynton Marsalis

I feel like I've been very lucky with the directors. The characters I've been offered, especially lately, have given me the opportunity…

— Penelope Cruz

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people;…

— Paul Theroux

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…

— Richard Leakey

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

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 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

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