Directors Quotes · Page 38

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

— Aaron Sorkin

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

— Peter Criss

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

— Adrian Pasdar

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

— Douglas Booth

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

— Richard King

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

— Jet Li

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think…

— Nicole Kidman

Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene,…

— William H. Macy

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with…

— Dustin Hoffman

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

— Robert Zemeckis

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on…

— Colin Farrell

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just…

— Alante Kavaite

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person…

— Marion Cotillard

My grooming as an actor took place after working with top directors like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, BR Chopra and Shakti Samantha.

— Asrani

And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get…

— Duncan Jones

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the…

— Tony Visconti

A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point…

— Will Estes

I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed…

— Geena Davis

I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much,…

— Joseph M. Kahn

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the…

— Nick Cannon

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and…

— Jimmy Fallon

Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very…

— Eiji Aonuma

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work

— Tea Leoni

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

— Julian Ovenden

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

— Gia Coppola

I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.

— Hal Needham

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

— Ernst Lubitsch

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director

— David Mamet

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

All my directors have tried to draw the best out of me at that point of time.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

— Sergio Leone

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

— Jonah Hill

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

— Marjane Satrapi

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

— Michael Sucsy

The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.

— Alexandre Desplat

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

— Melanie Griffith