Directors Quotes · Page 43

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

— Tea Leoni

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

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

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid…

— Marlene Dietrich

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well,…

— Bob Balaban

If a director takes the time to document - to step back to observe - I think it I more honest. Because…

— Sergio Leone

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been…

— Sarah Ruhl

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision.…

— Lenny Kravitz

You don't really audition for Hamlet; Hamlet is one of those roles that a director or producer decides you should do it.

— Chukwudi Iwuji

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's…

— Elizabeth Reaser

Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is…

— Javier Camara

A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to…

— Leonard Slatkin

You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same…

— David Ayer

I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may…

— Morgan Freeman

There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the…

— Jonny Greenwood

All the studios are owned by multinational corporations, which are not usually bastions of the left. So all the actors, writers, and…

— Paul Haggis

For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want…

— Alejandro Amenabar

Hours is an understatement. I honestly don't know how the director and editor decide each week what actually makes it on the…

— Joel McHale

[Director Christopher] Nolan has not only crafted the best Batman movie, but arguably the second-best motion picture superhero narrative (topped only by…

— James Berardinelli

Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.

— John Hurt

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

— William Monahan

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of…

— Bernie Sanders

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That…

— Anne-Marie Duff

Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal.

— Charles Bronson

I love acting, every job is a dream job when you're an actor. I'd like to do eventually more film work and…

— Josh Hopkins

If it gets to the Supreme Court, I'll have the directors of every museum in the country as expert testimony that my…

— Jock Sturges

It depends on the scripts and the character and just everybody involved, the other actors and directors. It's just a gut feeling…

— Mandy Moore

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped…

— Conan O'Brien

Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

— Dianne Wiest

Throughout whatever I do, I always just say "Director" first. I am directing the storylines and I'm creating what it is.

— Shane Dawson

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind…

— Danny Elfman

My scripts are always heavily noted. If I can take a director to one side and say, "Do you mind if we…

— Nick Frost

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes…

— Gerard Depardieu

I really want my career to be as an actor-writer-director-producer, you know? I don't know what will be stronger than the other.

— Danny Strong

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that…

— Spike Jonze

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.

— Steve Antin

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich…

— Larry Brooks

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor,…

— Tommy Wiseau