Directors Quotes · Page 31

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

— James Agate

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

— Mel Brooks

Certain directors have that eye where something is beautiful as well as funny.

— Lolly Adefope

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

— Alan Parker

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board…

— Roger Penske

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has…

— Alber Elbaz

Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out "alts" and then the director gets the first laugh.

— Tina Fey

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I…

— Isabella Rossellini

Chekhov directors and Chekhov actors love working on his plays because there seems to be no end to what you can find…

— Tom Stoppard

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you…

— Shirley MacLaine

I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors.…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film…

— Dave McKean

I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I…

— John Leguizamo

When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting…

— John Krokidas

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I make it a point to speak to the directors and tell them why I don't want to do a particular role…

— Atul Kulkarni

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there…

— Nicholas Stoller

I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like…

— Todd Phillips

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting,…

— Laurieann Gibson

Guy Ritchie is the worst screenwriter in the world, but, to be fair, he is not the worst director. He is only…

— Mick LaSalle

The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.

— Marielle Heller

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

— Amrita Rao

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

— Sofia Coppola

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

— Rosie Perez

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

— Nani

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

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

— Kevin Hart

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

— Diane Kruger

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