Directors Quotes · Page 65

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of…

— John Turturro

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such…

— Roger Ebert

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which…

— Tim Conway

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very…

— Ryan Coogler

“ Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British.…

— Julian Fellowes

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or…

— Mila Kunis

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

— Roy Lee

My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about…

— Honor Harger

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do…

— Robert Mitchum

I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also…

— Laura Ziskin

When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the…

— Edward Norton

When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want…

— Susan Sarandon

Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance…

— Sophie Barthes

I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make…

— Frank Capra

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors…

— Paul Haggis

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to…

— Mick Garris

Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan and the slew of fantastic writers and directors have always geared me towards making a three-dimensional human.

— Rhea Seehorn

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have…

— Uwe Boll

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a…

— Jonah Hill

[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly…

— Brent Spiner

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in…

— Mandy Patinkin

There's some things that you're passionate about as a director. You just know it has to be a certain way. The challenge…

— Ricky Schroder

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

— Johan Cruijff

What's interesting is that producers, directors and writers tend to typecast me in terms of whatever movie they've seen me in most…

— Gabrielle Union

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors…

— Richard Cobden

Blood City III: The Massacre. I'd read the summary of it online, and frankly, it sounded like the directors had just decided…

— James Patterson

Unfortunately they're practically all dead. And many were my closest associates: friends, co-directors, whatever you want to say - my partners in…

— William Eggleston

If a director, I believe, has vision and knows so clearly what they want, then you can have a film that can…

— Nate Parker

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let…

— Misty Copeland

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many…

— William Jackson

If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I was seen dancing at school by a director, who asked me to be in a TV play. And it had a…

— Francesca Annis

Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.

— Clive Owen

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's…

— Jason Reitman

Having a good director is very important. It's crucial. When you do good work with a certain director, you want to work…

— Giles Matthey

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you…

— Orlando Bloom

To learn bad dialogue is so difficult and so boring, and to work with a stupid director who tells you to do…

— Omar Sharif

Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're…

— Cameron Diaz

I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon