Directors Quotes · Page 34

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

— Barry Pepper

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

— Tom Skerritt

Just being hired by a great director is complimentary.

— Tom Skerritt

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

— Harold Ramis

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

— Angie Stone

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

— Paul Scofield

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.

— Anonymous

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

— Willem Dafoe

“The board directors see the development of strategy as a collective effort between themselves and management, rather than a question of “us…

— Pearl Zhu

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

— James Brolin

I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to…

— Luke Evans

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can…

— Gary Oldman

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and…

— C. Thomas Howell

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't…

— Adam Rapp

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in…

— Orson Welles

We had many good directors - John Carpenter, Brian De Palma - but things have become polluted by business, money and bad…

— Dario Argento

As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing.…

— Jen McGowan

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young…

— Jim Shepard

I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give…

— Willem Dafoe

We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of…

— Sarah Polley

The best directors leave you alone. If they've cast you in the part, hopefully they believe you have the gumption to interpret…

— Brenda Fricker

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director…

— Ashton Kutcher

If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.

— Michael Giacchino

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

— Georgina Chapman

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

— Jacques Rivette

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

— Elia Kazan

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood

— Tyrese Gibson

Directors and actors are people whose career spans are very short.

— Sunny Singh

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

— Anonymous

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

— Gaspard Ulliel

I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.

— Dylan O'Brien

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

— Gary Sinise

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

— Jason Reitman

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

— Mark Rydell