Director Quotes · Page 36

As a music video director, I have about 4 billion hits on my music videos on YouTube, and I'm really proud of that.

— Jonas Akerlund

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

— Taylor Hackford

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I…

— Manisha Koirala

Ek Tha Tiger' was a great script, director and leading superstar of the film industry Salman Khan is part of it.

— Ranvir Shorey

Growing up on set, the director is the person that, as a child, you admire and gives you validation.

— Shiri Appleby

I want to be a director, producer, and a writer. And an actor. So, like, all the things in acting, basically.

— Jacob Tremblay

As actors, when you can't be in the room with the casting director or the producers, you put yourself on tape and…

— Ricky Whittle

I'm not someone who comes onstage and says, 'I'm rewriting this now.' I don't think it's fair to the writers or the…

— Kevin Bacon

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is…

— James Spader

Sometime ago, I went for a film festival in San Francisco and that's where I met film director Warren Foster and actors…

— Babu Antony

Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid…

— Robert Englund

I don't think of myself particularly as a Scottish director, but you are what you are because the first ten years of…

— Kevin Macdonald

As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is…

— Judith Jamison

You cannot sit at home at act. You need a story, a director, you need people to believe in you, to put…

— Janhvi Kapoor

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 loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work…

— Richard Thomas

When I started singing, people said I couldn't sing because I was a music director. I proved them wrong.

— Himesh Reshammiya

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where…

— Robert Wilson

Director Arjun Sablok presented me so well in 'Na Tum Jaano Na Hum.' It is every debutante's dream role, though it was…

— Esha Deol

Without critical acclaim, you are just a successful commercial director, and nothing more.

— Priyadarshan

Not every director can always rise to the challenge of all of a sudden having $200 million thrown at them.

— Simu Liu

It's always interesting to see a director trying different things, and on top of it, doing it right each and almost every…

— Vincent Cassel

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a…

— Emraan Hashmi

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

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

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