Director Quotes · Page 19

Every actor or director has their ups and downs.

— Mohanlal

I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director.

— Michael Ritchie

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

My work as an actor is limited by the voice of the director and the writing.

— Adrien Brody

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

— Adam McKay

I think there is more cohesion when you have one director on set.

— Sam Esmail

The best director is the one you don't see.

— Billy Wilder

I always felt like as the director, I gotta be the best at everything.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

It's important that the director and actor have good chemistry, and not just the actors.

— Alia Bhatt

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

— Leslie Caron

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,…

— Alexander Hamilton

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me…

— Niall Matter

I started off as an assistant director in Mani Ratnam's 'Ayudha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva.'

— Karthi

I wasn't a star and I wasn't a handsome person, so I thought I would become a burden for director Shin Won…

— Seo In-guk

I would like to be an actor, but I really would like to be a director of feature films. That's what I…

— Julian Dennison

Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not…

— Juliette Lewis

I particularly relate to the films of Mikio Naruse and Shinichi Kamoshita, a person whose work I watched very much as a…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

I enjoyed all my films equally. I have loved working in all the movies which I signed. Whenever I used to like…

— Asha Parekh

I suppose they call me a womans director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed…

— George Cukor

With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in…

— David Blunkett

For me, the audition is always the hardest part of the whole process. Once you get on set, once you're in costume,…

— Angourie Rice

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director,…

— John Tesh

It can be insulting to an actor when the director comes out, and they have no notes on the performance, and all…

— Reed Morano

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the…

— Patti LuPone

I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.

— Limmy

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

— Josh Radnor

James Mangold is such a brilliant director.

— Monica Barbaro

I have realised I am a director's actor.

— Suniel Shetty

I believe in doing a nude scene only when I trust the director.

— Sarita Choudhury

As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.

— Greig Fraser

TV is more the director's medium. You can be edited right out.

— Leslie Uggams

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

— Jiang Wen

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

— Alden Ehrenreich

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

— Dave Franco

Sirk was every woman's dream of a director.

— Dorothy Malone

'Son Chiriya' is a special film with lovely co-stars and a sorted out director.

— Bhumi Pednekar

There are lots of people that make movies. It's not just the director.

— Paul Bettany

It helps for actors if you have one director.

— James Watkins

I reach on the sets ready to be moulded by the director and give my best shot.

— Vikrant Massey

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

— Mark Romanek