Director Quotes · Page 23

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.

— Donnie Yen

I need to be on the same page as the director.

— Marion Cotillard

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

— Nicole Byer

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

— Ray Harryhausen

Tarsem Singh was such a fantastic director.

— Joseph Morgan

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

— Sydney Pollack

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

— Steven Spielberg

Sanjay Bhansali is a great director but then so is Mani Ratnam.

— Shatrughan Sinha

I've told my agent to push the idea of me as a director for hire off the table. Otherwise, we're wasting people's…

— Sean Baker

To be honest, I had taken time to discover my calling and did different things like being an assistant director, a photographer…

— Akshara Haasan

There is an isolated experience to being a director. It's very communal because there's a crew, but it's only you. You're the…

— Noah Baumbach

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.

— Kevin Spacey

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

— Adele Exarchopoulos

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

— Swoosie Kurtz

If a big director comes to me 'I want you in this role, the story is very good,' I will be ready…

— Dino Morea

Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties…

— Carmen Ejogo

From the start, there was unanimity about my arrival at Manchester City. The coach, the executive director Garry Cook, and chairman Khaldoun…

— Samir Nasri

I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at his house at…

— Michael Korda

Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find…

— Jason Statham

Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word…

— Phil LaMarr

A New York casting director, who shall remain nameless, once said to me, 'Marcia, you have what I call the flaring-nostril look,…

— Marcia Gay Harden

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 love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular…

— Roger Deakins

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

Working with Ravi Shastri as Team Director was a good experience.

— Shikhar Dhawan

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

— Divya Dutta

People think a director teaches acting. But in good films a director doesn't.

— Sreenivasan

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

— Donnie Yen

I am discovering myself as a director all the time.

— Takashi Miike

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

— Sasha Alexander

Any movie's only as good as the director.

— Woody Harrelson

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents…

— Orson Welles

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

— Iain Glen

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

— Anthony Browne

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

— Bryan Cranston

Film's a director's medium. Stage an actor's medium.

— Leslie Jordan

John Parsons, the gay art director at 'Vogue,' really started my career.

— David Bailey

The director is as good as the actor and vice versa.

— Nag Ashwin

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

— Bhumi Pednekar