Directors Quotes · Page 44

When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like…

— Viola Davis

I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker…

— Michael Weatherly

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

— Neil Gaiman

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain…

— Mike Patton

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider…

— Billy Bob Thornton

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

— Eli Roth

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my…

— Scarlett Johansson

When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like…

— Denzel Washington

The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how…

— Nicholas Ozeki

“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that…

— Ayn Rand

That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life…

— Deborah Kara Unger

I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you…

— Lisa Kudrow

I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because…

— Morgan Freeman

I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of…

— Pauly Shore

So I'm here, and not being one for missed opportunities, I made a list of the casting directors in New York and…

— William Mapother

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's…

— Danny Elfman

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set…

— Alan Parker

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way…

— Peter Mullan

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You…

— Mark Wahlberg

In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an…

— John Gofman

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

— Steve Carell

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about…

— Sanaa Lathan

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

— Denzel Washington

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director…

— Monica Raymund

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the…

— John Dykstra

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but…

— Joel Kinnaman

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

— Linda Blair

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how…

— Joe Wright

There are so many great directors and actors, like Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Rakeysh Ompraskash Mehra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Basu - the…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

— Damian Loeb

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an…

— Jude Law

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a…

— Jean Dujardin

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence…

— Andrew Sarris

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are…

— Dane Cook

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work…

— Catherine Keener

I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They…

— Vinessa Shaw

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So…

— Anne Fontaine

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to…

— Shailene Woodley

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and…

— Jon M. Chu

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they…

— John C. Reilly