Directors Quotes · Page 52

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen…

— Roman Coppola

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

— Bill Gurley

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

— Richard Gere

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were…

— Zachary Quinto

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

— Thornton Wilder

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part…

— Catherine McCormack

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time…

— Vera Farmiga

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves.…

— Udo Kier

What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.'…

— Rob Marshall

If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have…

— Roger Deakins

As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to…

— Eric Balfour

I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies…

— David Gordon Green

If you have a vision or if you believe the director has a vision, then at least you've got something to talk…

— Kurt Russell

A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -…

— Demian Bichir

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've…

— Gaby Hoffmann

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it…

— Charlie Brooker

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

— Lynda Obst

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

— Rita Hayworth

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like…

— Joan Severance

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job…

— Ryuhei Kitamura

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

— Jeff Tremaine

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director…

— Soundarya

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what…

— Liam Neeson

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in…

— John Frankenheimer

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke.…

— Anne Archer

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who…

— Matt Damon

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and…

— Todd Solondz

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm…

— Sophie Turner

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show…

— Paul Feig

I think you can study too much. I've seen that happen. Young people get immersed in the work of other directors and…

— James Ivory

All of my fellow directors, I think, would agree that in whatever medium you are working, the challenges and obstacles push them…

— Doug Liman

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a…

— Jamie Bell

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple…

— Patrick Macnee

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and,…

— Zach Braff

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want…

— Matt Damon

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it,…

— Jack Black

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

— Norman Fell