Directors Quotes · Page 49

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to…

— Julianne Moore

Ohio went on alert Tuesday when a train with hazardous chemicals ran wild through the state. A brave engineer leaped aboard and…

— Argus Hamilton

I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love…

— Idris Elba

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of…

— Todd Phillips

I just want character-actor-driven stories and directors that are actors' directors, which is what everyone says.

— Sophie Thatcher

The dance that happens, between actor and director, is a very delicate thing...it's why people tend to work together on many films…

— Sydney Pollack

The more that I can work in different mediums, the more I can grow, and learn from different actors and different types…

— Christina Ricci

I always like playing the bad guys. They have more fun! I want a director to come up to me and say,…

— James Badge Dale

You always like to be the collaborator. I don't want to take over the movie, because if I want to do that,…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

It was pretty fun [auditioning on the Millennium Falcon], because I enjoyed the material a lot. Last year I read for the…

— Alden Ehrenreich

On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them…

— Adrian Hodges

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the…

— Danny Elfman

I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then…

— Kari Matchett

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they…

— Akira Kurosawa

Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the…

— Viola Davis

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how…

— Catherine McCormack

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

— Joshua Michael Stern

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I…

— Francesco Carrozzini

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

— Sidney Blumenthal

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

— Devon Bostick

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited -…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

— Steven Spielberg

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of…

— Matt Damon

I've always really respected directors. As much as I was interested in acting, whenever I watched a film, it was always the…

— Paul Wesley

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over,…

— R. Lee Ermey

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.

— Sonia Braga

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people…

— Abbas Kiarostami

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast…

— Taylor Hackford

I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors…

— Kirsten Dunst

I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to…

— Zachary Quinto

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the…

— Shiri Appleby

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

— Tom Hooper

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

— Steven Price

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and…

— Renee O'Connor

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call…

— Zubin Mehta

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

— Jelly Roll Morton

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through…

— Steven Spielberg

You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this…

— Sarah Gadon

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight…

— Michael Biehn