Directors Quotes · Page 7

I've worked with the best directors and co-stars.

— Dharmendra

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

— Jan de Bont

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

— Robert Rodriguez

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

— Ridley Scott

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

— Diane Paulus

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

— Luke Evans

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

— John Cameron Mitchell

Todd Solondz is one of my favorite directors.

— Eric Wareheim

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

— Robin Tunney

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

— Peter Stormare

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

— Channing Tatum

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

— Andy Warhol

Some of the top directors have launched their career with me. That's the high.

— Anu Malik

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

— Debbie Reynolds

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

— A. O. Scott

There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin.

— Lloyd Kaufman

Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I…

— Michael Haneke

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo…

— Martin Short

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los…

— Swoosie Kurtz

I would like to work with new-generation directors like Karthik Subbaraj, Nalan Kumarasamy and Seenu Ramasamy.

— Vivek

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have…

— Spike Lee

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

— Adele Exarchopoulos

There are American directors I'd really like to work with, but I don't know how much I want to be sitting in…

— Romola Garai

The director is the most important because, ultimately, as an actor, when you watch a movie, it looks like an actor is…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

A lot of the projects that I do, I like to be involved with earlier. I just feel that, certainly from an…

— Clive Owen

And one of the funnest things was watching what they did before the director called action and after the director called cut.…

— Brian Henson

How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you…

— Daniel Handler

People attach too much to the idea of being a model, that you can only be a certain way to have done…

— Jamie Dornan

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the…

— Dan Jenkins

I used to get so worried that if a scene didn't go a certain way, then it was horrible. But then I…

— Katie Holmes

You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference…

— Daniel Simon

Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and…

— Johan Huizinga

Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a…

— Greta Gerwig

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily…

— Laurence Sterne

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just…

— Biz Stone

I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the…

— Jessica Chastain

Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my…

— Bianca Balti

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has…

— Douglas Booth