Director Quotes · Page 31

In 'Badlapur,' my character's name is Jhumli. It's a special film for me because I got a chance to work with my…

— Huma Qureshi

If you're a director presenting a new idea, and the person who can judge whether or not it goes ahead is in…

— Edwin Catmull

I am quite an insecure person, and I think that, like any director, if I'm asked about my vision for a piece,…

— Marianne Elliott

The concept of 'DAM999' is very interesting, which director Sohan Roy has written. The entire idea was to capture or encapsulate the…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

Direction is something that interests me. Even while shooting, I always have conversations with the director to get a better understanding of…

— Ashish Sharma

I stopped directing in 2001 for - oh, damn - four or five years, until I did the TV series 'Masters Of…

— John Carpenter

You can assist another director and learn the ropes of the craft over the years, but becoming a director is about finding…

— Vikramaditya Motwane

I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm…

— Jacqueline Bisset

I feel scenes of sexual intimacy are ruined if the director is embarrassed.

— Aparna Sen

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

— Todd Haynes

There was a time when I desperately wanted to be part of a Yash Chopra film, not because he was a great…

— Katrina Kaif

As a director, I'm not the one animating every frame, every shot. I'm moving around like a surgeon on rounds, or a…

— Henry Selick

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small…

— Nithya Menen

As a director I would love to work with Marion Cotillard. She's so magical.

— Zawe Ashton

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls,…

— Hope Hicks

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

— Travis Scott

I was the first black director on 'Dallas.' I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who…

— Bill Duke

My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual…

— Chloe Benjamin

John Boorman was the best director I've ever had.

— Burt Reynolds

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals,…

— Josh Hartnett

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

For me, the most difficult move was when I chose to quit modelling and applied for a position of an assistant director.

— Sidharth Malhotra

I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.

— Joe Swanberg

'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting…

— Robert Gottlieb

If I feel the role is not going to demand anything out of me, I don't do it. Either it has to…

— Tabu