Director Quotes · Page 41

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 would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file.

— Vincent Frank

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

When you hear that you're going to be working with a first-time director, sometimes that can be a concern to people.

— Will Ferrell

The funny thing about being a female director in the last 25 years is that I never let it feel different.

— Kari Skogland

As an actress I knew I had to control my weight gain somehow as any director or producer would like to sign…

— Mumtaj

“If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read books!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

An actor can never voice his opinion through films. All an actor does is convey what the director and writer want to…

— Naseeruddin Shah

Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director…

— Edgar Wright

When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To…

— Robert Osborne

My dad, before he passed away, never understood what I did. What I say is that I'm responsible for translating the director's…

— Rachel Morrison

Language does not matter to audience if content is good. It is the director's belief which is translated on screen and roles…

— Mukul Dev

'Days of Our Lives' was an insane schedule. You're doing a whole one-hour show in a day. You do a very cursory…

— Charles Shaughnessy

I would put my pictures up against anybody's in this world. Certainly in my own day I bow to no one. I…

— John Cassavetes

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a…

— David Morrissey

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director.

— Michel Hazanavicius

My father Kamran Khan was a successful producer, director and actor in B-grade films.

— Farah Khan

If I had to rate them in order of preference, it would be writer, director, actor and then producer.

— Rakshit Shetty

The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The…

— Christoph Waltz

I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

— Fede Alvarez

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

— Florence Pugh

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

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage,…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

— Milos Forman

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that…

— Donnie Yen

Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one…

— Kishore Kumar

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It…

— Ridley Scott

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

— Marjane Satrapi

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

— Jonah Hill

I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance…

— Winona Ryder

I haven't been a director-for-hire for any project. I work with people who appreciate that, understand that, and want to work that…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

“If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if…

— Angelina Jolie

I'd love to work with any director who has their own artistic vision, their own stamp, and who believes in that.

— Stacy Martin

I feel Prawaal Raman is an amazing director with great films in his pocket like 'Gayab.'

— Rhea Chakraborty