Directors Quotes · Page 42

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

— Hans Zimmer

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

— David Yates

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

— Griffin Dunne

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

— John Frankenheimer

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

— Fred Durst

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas

It's directors' choice if they want to work with me. Not mine.

— Sridevi

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

— Paul Mazursky

I think I'm a very very nice director. Very supportive, very nurturing. I definitely try to challenge my actors but I think…

— David Schwimmer

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied…

— Steven Spielberg

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

— Katori Hall

I kind of have an interest in all history. And I suspect it comes from being Irish - we like stories, we…

— Colm Meaney

As a Japanese actor, I really want to work with a lot of actors and actresses in the world and many directors…

— Ken Watanabe

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has…

— Ty Simpkins

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get…

— Richard Jenkins

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix,…

— James Denton

What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge,…

— Helen Mirren

I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love…

— Matt Bomer

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to…

— Ethan Hawke

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but…

— Tobin Bell

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of…

— William Godwin

It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)…

— Tadeusz Kantor

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and…

— Eric Balfour

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you…

— Eric Balfour

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

— Imogen Poots

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

— Christopher Hitchens

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

— Guillermo del Toro

There are some directors I hear about in nighttime or some I used to work with who walk around like gods.

— Eric Braeden

Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.

— Shaan

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

— Peter Diamandis

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

— Chaske Spencer

I've slept with a few directors but still didn't get the part. Isn't that strange?

— Naomi Watts

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

— Frances McDormand

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

— Fede Alvarez

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

— Ian Mckellen

Both Peter Chan and Wong Kar Wai are directors that I respect very much.

— Zhao Wei

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

— Andrea Arnold

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

— Dermot Mulroney

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

— Angelina Jolie

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

— Philip Kaufman