Directors Quotes · Page 30

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

— Bai Ling

It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

— Lenny Henry

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

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

— Jason Reitman

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can…

— Hugh Jackman

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you…

— David Ayer

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and…

— Thomas Bidegain

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be…

— Shane Dawson

When I was younger, I used to write to directors when I was unsure I could play a role. I'd say: 'You've…

— Kelly Reilly

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director…

— Alan Parker

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of…

— Victoria Abril

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts…

— Damian Lewis

I need to gain a lot more experience. I think so much of being a director, other than the technical aspect and…

— Josh Peck

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that;…

— Melanie Laurent

[ Oval House] director, Peter Oliver, gave you the right to fail. He had a philosophy that came from Winston Churchill that…

— John Ratzenberger

Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never…

— William H. Macy

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing,…

— Amy Seimetz

Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted…

— Glenn Greenwald

Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by…

— Ishmael Reed

There's a little burst of creativity being director followed by lots and lots of meetings and talking to people and more meetings.…

— Timothy Miller

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

— Vaani Kapoor

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

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

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

— Corey Feldman

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

— Viggo Mortensen

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

— Akshay Kumar

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

— Harold Prince

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

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

— Fran Lebowitz

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

— Tom Hooper

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart