Directors Quotes · Page 32

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

— M. Jayachandran

I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

— Barack Obama

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

— Peter Travers

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

— Twyla Tharp

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

— Jessica Savitch

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship,…

— Kellan Lutz

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones…

— Woody Allen

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million…

— Michael Pitt

It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers…

— Steve Buscemi

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me…

— Sidney Sheinberg

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director,…

— Takashi Miike

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct…

— Ashton Kutcher

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever…

— Clark Gregg

In my experience, directors who are the most comfortable with themselves and confident in their work give you and everybody on the…

— Sarah Gadon

The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you…

— Robert Schwentke

People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

We had a work session [in "Moneyball"] where about 30 scouts came in and we're all riffing. And after it, [director] Bennett…

— Brad Pitt

The ideal set-up would be the story man, the director, and the layout man, as well as musician, operating as a sort…

— Walt Disney

Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working…

— Max Beesley

I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to…

— Jennifer Lawrence

Let's say [Warren Beatty] wants you to speak louder in a scene. He won't stop playing the role and say to you…

— Alden Ehrenreich

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

— Frank Darabont

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

— Denis O'Hare

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

— Kathleen Turner

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

— Dino Morea

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

— Vera Farmiga

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

— Jaime King

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

— Denzel Washington

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

— Winona Ryder

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

— Mario Lopez

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

— Brent Sexton

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

— Steve Antin

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

— Andrew Lau

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

— Martin Scorsese

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

— Charles Durning