Director Quotes · Page 31

I remember when I got my first salary, Rs 3000/- while working as an assistant director during my college summer vacation and…

— Ishita Dutta

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.

— Finn Wolfhard

From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.

— George Cukor

When a show's already established, and a director comes to set, it can be quite the intimidating experience.

— Paul Wesley

I don't know how to make award-winning films; I'm a director happy in making masala films.

— Raghava Lawrence

I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis's movies.

— Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

— Harold Prince

It was director Krishna Reddy who introduced me as a hero. All my films with him have been very successful.

— Ali

Ultimately, a director is a storyteller. I wanted to fortify that part of my life as a director, so I thought the…

— Fred Savage

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened…

— Dorothy Arzner

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.…

— Al Pacino

'Bloodlight and Bami' is all verite. The director Sophie Fiennes began filming Ms. Jones in the mid-2000s and simply observes her on…

— Wesley Morris

There ain't a director in town who knows action better than I do. That's not just braggadocio on my part. I've been…

— Hal Needham

You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

I've been writing the show with Nigel Coan, the director of 'Luxury Comedy', and Tom Meeten. Three's good. With two, you can…

— Noel Fielding

I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it…

— Ennio Morricone

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the…

— Patty Jenkins

When I bagged 'Arundathi,' I don't think I knew how to act. It was because of director Shyamprasad Reddy that I delivered…

— Anushka Shetty

For Mike Mills, I learned that having dance parties and crying with your cast does not make you a weak director, it…

— Greta Gerwig

I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.

— Yance Ford

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

— Jackie Chan

You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.

— Beth Henley

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

— Billy Wilder

I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.

— Doug Liman

I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing…

— Melvin Van Peebles

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

— Vera Farmiga

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible…

— Joseph Gatt

There's been a realization in college athletics that an athletic director really is a businessman.

— Oliver Luck

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

“Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut? Get out of the car.”

— Jonathan Lethem

An actor can be as talented as another, but if he doesn't stick to what the director's intentions are, it all falls…

— Nicholas Ray

Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.

— Peter Marino

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

— Isabella Rossellini

I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not…

— Luca Guadagnino

Just having more days of being the director on the ground, that's been invaluable.

— Shiri Appleby

What I look for in a director is a strong point of view, a clear vision, and an ability to multitask and…

— Donna Langley

When I started crediting myself as writer and director, I saw that as a political act.

— David Cage

The person I call my secret weapon is an arranger, pianist and musical director, Herman Jackson.

— Philip Bailey

The writer and the director are ultimately responsible for what is portrayed and glorified in a film. Then comes the producer.

— Parvathy