Directors Quotes · Page 37

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

— Woody Allen

I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.

— Stephen Karam

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

— Eli Roth

I think Anand Rai is one of the few brilliant directors we have.

— R. Madhavan

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

— Swoosie Kurtz

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

— Alexander Payne

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the…

— Patti Smith

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were…

— Colm Meaney

I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.

— Joshua Marston

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've…

— John Milius

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

— Jodie Foster

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and…

— Jay Roach

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of…

— Lou Doillon

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a…

— Zach Condon

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative…

— Amber Benson

It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur…

— James Coburn

I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long…

— Paul Feig

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving…

— Julia Stiles

I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that…

— Dominic Cooper

I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into…

— Lanford Wilson

Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else…

— Michael Shannon

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

— Betty Hill

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

— Vincent Cassel

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

— Dolph Lundgren

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

— Eric Braeden

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

— Andy Warhol

Some of the top directors have launched their career with me. That's the high.

— Anu Malik

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

— Peter Stormare

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

— Channing Tatum

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

— A. O. Scott

I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

— Stacey Snider

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

— Debbie Reynolds

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

— Miles Teller

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

— Ken Adam

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory