Directors Quotes · Page 57

I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go…

— Ewan McGregor

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems…

— Jonathan Frakes

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of…

— Hiro Murai

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a…

— Stephen Daldry

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's…

— Ti West

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over…

— A. A. Gill

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed,…

— Daniel Handler

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

— Robert De Niro

Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to…

— Ice Cube

I was very headstrong about wanting to keep my name when I moved to Los Angeles. But casting directors would call my…

— Garrett Clayton

We are fortunate to have such an esteemed filmmaker join the Marvel family. The talents Ryan [Coogler] showcased in his first two…

— Kevin Feige

I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of…

— Michel Gondry

Sometimes directors may not give you words, you know? They may not talk at all! You've just got to use your radar…

— Faith Prince

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which…

— David R. Ellis

It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me.…

— Simon Sinek

I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so…

— Paddy Considine

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

— John Waters

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of…

— Stanley Tucci

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point…

— Charles Roven

I like being adventurous in my choice of roles. It may not be the prescribed way, but it is mine and I…

— Prateik Babbar

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change…

— Howard Hawks

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles.…

— Scott Speedman

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as…

— Trevor Nunn

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that…

— Aaron Sorkin

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak.…

— John Hurt

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

— Malcolm McDowell

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what…

— Ricky Jay

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director…

— Jane Haddam

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for…

— Cynthia Nixon

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

— Edward Albee

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers,…

— Lynda Obst

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during…

— John Malkovich

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I…

— Juliette Lewis

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School…

— John David Washington

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right…

— Billy Bob Thornton