Director Quotes · Page 21

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

— Melissa Leo

Working with Sam Mendes was a dream come true. He's unbelievable as a director.

— David Burtka

Suneel Darshan is the kind of director I'd want to work with repeatedly.

— Bobby Deol

As a director, you're open to any kind of criticism.

— Theodore Melfi

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

— Andy Serkis

I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

— Roger Michell

I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.

— Phyllida Lloyd

A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

The things I'm most excited about are projects I'm producing. But if a director I'd love to work with calls, I'm always…

— Malik Yoba

I actually have a theater company called Strangemen & Co. I'm the artistic director and co-founder.

— Jason Ralph

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's…

— Morgan Freeman

I think that in order to be a film director, one has to be a warrior who shouldn't be defeated by the…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

— Aaron Sorkin

I've worked with Farah Khan who is a competent woman director, and Farah and I had a great professional equation and we…

— Sonu Sood

You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh…

— Robert De Niro

I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And…

— Melissa Leo

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is…

— Andy Serkis

When 'Humsafar' did well, every single person associated with it shined. Its DoP [Director of Photography], Shehzad Kashmiri, went on to become…

— Mahira Khan

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a…

— Adam Rapp

I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this…

— Melina Matsoukas

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Michael Mann's work. Thematically, this film deploys the techniques…

— Elvis Mitchell

Actors, I think, are all the same. Both Korean actors and American actors are all very sensitive people, and they are all…

— Park Chan-wook

As an actor you have to deliver what the director wants.

— Saqib Saleem

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

— John Frankenheimer

I can't say I am a great director but I am the greatest audience.

— Sajid Khan

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

— Robert Loggia

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

Every song that I compose has to satisfy the music director in me.

— Gopi Sundar

I'm not a Shakespearean actor really, or a Shakespearean director.

— Sam Wanamaker

I never want to be a film director - I want to be a teacher.

— Rithy Panh

My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.

— Travis Scott

I'm a director's actor and go by what they say.

— Kriti Kharbanda

My mom is a casting director, which is pretty awesome.

— Simon Helberg

Sharan is a very talented director, well versed with his craft.

— Pankaj Tripathi

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

— Lina Wertmuller

Truly, I never dreamt of becoming an actor - I always wanted to be a director.

— Ranvir Shorey

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

— Lena Headey

When you have a good director, everything is taken care of.

— Manisha Koirala