Directors Quotes · Page 41

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

I never had any problem with my producers or directors.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

— Barkhad Abdi

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

— Conrad Hall

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

— Kate Beckinsale

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

— Alfred Hitchcock

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men…

— Michael Haneke

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult…

— Jeff Bridges

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of…

— Lester Persky

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working…

— Lynn Shelton

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

— Truman Capote

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with…

— Robert M. Gates

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

— Amy Poehler

Jock Semple and I were at daggers drawn for five years, even though I kind of forgave him from the get-go. I…

— Kathrine Switzer

Yes, there was a massive difference between their styles. David is a very technical director and Chris is an actor's director, in…

— Tinsel Korey

When I look around and see how aged cartoonists continue to work on their manga and how movie directors create new movies…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like…

— Rowan Atkinson

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines.…

— Katie Leclerc

If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue…

— James Duval

Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike,…

— Cary Fukunaga

It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the…

— Gideon Glick

I believe, as a producer/director, your duty is to create a beautiful horror film that really resonates.

— Guillermo del Toro

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

— Morgan Saylor

I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

— Ram Charan

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

— Deepak Chopra

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

— Tom Stoppard

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

— Jack Levine

I've really enjoyed my work in television, but the problem for me is the turnover of directors every week.

— Robert Carlyle

As directors, we get very stuck on the stories we want to tell.

— Anna Boden

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

— Nicole Ari Parker

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

— Francis Ford Coppola

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

— Charles L. Grant

There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors

— Francois Truffaut

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

— Chris Tucker

Many directors are approaching me with good scripts. I will concentrate on production and music.

— Vijay Antony

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

— Don Bluth

For film, I audition just like everyone else, because it's a different set of casting directors.

— Neil Patrick Harris