Directors Quotes · Page 80

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors,…

— Gillian Jacobs

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of…

— Topher Grace

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Mark Shurtleff

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things.…

— Emma Stone

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not…

— Nick Cave

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the…

— Max Greenfield

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at…

— James Franco

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject…

— Rob Lowe

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous…

— Zhang Ziyi

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests…

— Joel Bakan

I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I…

— Robin Tunney

It was pretty fun [auditioning on the Millennium Falcon], because I enjoyed the material a lot. Last year I read for the…

— Alden Ehrenreich

You always like to be the collaborator. I don't want to take over the movie, because if I want to do that,…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them…

— Adrian Hodges

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the…

— Danny Elfman

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

— Audrey Tautou

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted…

— Rod Serling

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a…

— Rebecca Eaton

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want…

— Rob Reiner

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I…

— Maynard Webb

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.…

— Aldous Huxley

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,…

— Alan J. Pakula

Truthfully, most directors don't direct actors. Every actor is different, so when you're asked, "How do you approach an actor?," it depends…

— John Landis

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

— Julia Stiles

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a…

— Roland Joffe

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

— Jamie Dornan

I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and…

— Mike Mills

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the…

— Paul Watson

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are…

— Nathalie Emmanuel

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me…

— Marilyn Monroe

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors…

— Catherine Keener

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised…

— Wim Wenders

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read…

— George Cukor

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh.…

— Ken Jeong

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

— Luke Evans