Directors Quotes · Page 6

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

— Bob Fosse

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

— Cameron Diaz

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

— John Carradine

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

— Naomie Harris

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

— Richard Widmark

I depend on good editors and a good director.

— Indira Varma

Most of my friends are assistant directors.

— Vijay Sethupathi

I prefer to work with first-time directors.

— Anonymous

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

— Swoosie Kurtz

I think Anand Rai is one of the few brilliant directors we have.

— R. Madhavan

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

— Vincent Cassel

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

— Betty Hill

I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.

— Stephen Karam

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

— Eli Roth

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

— Woody Allen

It's a collaborative art form where we can both learn something from the other. That's what you want from the relationship with…

— Cam Gigandet

I miss the comraderie of live television - the fact that you were on the set, you worked closely with the director…

— Rod Serling

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any…

— Timothy Olyphant

I'd say the film to avoid is a director's second film, particularly if his first film was a big success. The second…

— John Hurt

The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a…

— Cris Judd

I think filmmaking should be a wonderfully free collaborative process, and it so very rarely is. I often see directors as jailers…

— Gary Oldman

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of…

— Willem Dafoe

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

— Elliot Morley

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense…

— William Monahan

When I work on a film, you know, I try to get or inhabit the body of the character -from the vision…

— Keanu Reeves

Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She…

— Jeff Britting

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made…

— Alexander Kluge

I'd love to see the rushes but it's just not allowed because directors and also a lot of actors feel that if…

— Corey Haim

One of the good things is the relationship between director and editor used to be more contentious. Studios used to leave directors…

— Michael Sucsy

I love to take chances. I love first-time directors. I love super-low-budget movies. I've done 80-something movies, and I want to just…

— Beth Grant

One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as…

— Alan Rickman

Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're…

— Anna Faris

This is many, many years ago. It was shortly after "Starman" I think. I don't know how close I was to getting…

— Jeff Bridges

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and…

— Tony Kushner

When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you…

— Jeph Loeb

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him…

— James Berardinelli

It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I…

— Ethan Hawke