Directors Quotes · Page 35

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

— Judd Nelson

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

— John Hurt

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of…

— Jordi Molla

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something…

— Catherine Hardwicke

The director of The Sopranos told me that, if I wouldn't gain weight, I would lose my job. I didn't look like…

— Jamie Lynn Sigler

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the…

— Joe Swanberg

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect…

— Stanley Tucci

I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson... I love American movies, but I…

— Monica Bellucci

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my…

— Spike Lee

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

— Logan Lerman

The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director…

— James McAvoy

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come…

— Hans Zimmer

It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking,…

— Christopher Walken

I'm not very self aware about my career. I probably should be more so. Just to be brutally honest, it's not like…

— David Arquette

Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

[Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said…

— Ice Cube

The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm…

— Jackie Chan

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is…

— James Spader

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

— Richard Farnsworth

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

— Michael Pitt

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

— Stanley Tucci

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

— DeVon Franklin

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

— Bong Joon-ho

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

— Anonymous

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh

Here's the problem: women directors are not allowed to fail.

— Niki Caro

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

— Terence Stamp

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

— Adam Rapp

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

I am a professional and maintain good rapport with all my producers, directors and co-artists.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

— Mackenzie Astin

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

— Gabrielle Union