Directors Quotes · Page 4

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

— Sasha Alexander

Two directors always come with two thought processes.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

— James Franco

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

— Louis Mann

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

— Penelope Spheeris

I had a whole new respect for directors.

— John Leguizamo

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

— Gene Wilder

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

— Charles S. Dutton

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

— Clive Barker

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

— Jim Rash

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

— John Waters

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

— Debbie Allen

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

— Roger Michell

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

— Bette Davis

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

— Viggo Mortensen

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

— Jack Nicholson

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you…

— Matthew Modine

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has…

— Salman Rushdie

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid,…

— Ernst Lubitsch

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a…

— Martin Scorsese

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the…

— Steven Knight

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

— Marion Cotillard

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school.…

— David Fincher

One of my first jobs was in a soap opera, five days a week. And what I found is, although there are…

— Idris Elba

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who…

— Carice van Houten

You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it's not really…

— Adrian Hodges

It's dangerous for one actor to advise another one, especially when you're not in charge. On the set, I'm never gonna tell…

— David Koechner

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but…

— Theodore Bikel

I feel I should defer to the writers and the directors because they're the ones who have the complete vision. They see…

— Shoshannah Stern

The process always starts with detailed conversations with the director, followed by a spotting session (deciding where the music goes and doesn't…

— John Keltonic

I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is…

— Adam Richman

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's…

— Lenny Kravitz

There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun…

— Quentin Tarantino

I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier…

— John Waters

During the shooting of a scene the director’s eye has to catch even the minutest detail. But this does not mean glaring…

— Akira Kurosawa

If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home.…

— Annie Baker

It's a real testament to the amount of skill and talent involved, across the board, whether it's the production design, the construction,…

— Harry Treadaway

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to…

— Antonio Banderas