Directors Quotes · Page 36

Rituparno Ghosh and Bharathirajaa are two directors who were born to direct.They can make even a stone act.

— Riya Sen

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

— Peter Falk

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

— Johnny Depp

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

— Javier Bardem

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

I think directors who care about their work should be invested.

— Robert B. Weide

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

— Louis C. K

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn…

— Michael Rooker

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you…

— Andy Serkis

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a…

— Robert B. Weide

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

— Rhetta Hughes

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or…

— Ben Affleck

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

— Gore Verbinski

Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing...…

— Campbell Scott

Now Tarantino is making DJANGO UNCHAINED. Everybody is telling me I am in the movie but I've not been asked by Tarantino…

— Franco Nero

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And…

— Reba McEntire

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or…

— Isabella Rossellini

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a…

— Steven Spielberg

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the…

— Romola Garai

I have an association that director means total authority. Director means they will never let you down. Director means just trust them…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good…

— Alice Rivlin

Every director is different and they all have different styles. I've worked with directors who were very specific and they gave a…

— Michael Pitt

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

— Liev Schreiber

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Some directors work from day to day. I work from moment to moment.

— George A. Romero

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

— Jeremy Piven

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

— John Waters

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

— Jerry Weintraub

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

— Asia Argento

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

— Bo Derek

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

— Vijay Antony

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

— William Monahan

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

— Robin Tunney