Director Quotes · Page 9

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

— Ludivine Sagnier

My dream is to become a director. I want to direct a Hindi film.

— Dhanush

Somebody who likes to do my plays is a good director for them.

— Tom Stoppard

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

— Brett Ratner

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

— Frances McDormand

I've slogged to become a director; it's taken a lot out of me.

— Samuthirakani

I started as a director very young and fell into acting.

— Peter Stormare

I always listen to my director and never argue with him.

— Chunky Pandey

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

— Mumtaj

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

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

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

— Christoph Waltz

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

— Rakshit Shetty

Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But…

— Ben Affleck

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum,…

— Orson Welles

Some people work very closely with a director or a producer on something, and from the get go, they're collaborating. But typically,…

— Roger Craig Smith

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and…

— Donnie Yen

I don't want to make studio films if I am constantly fighting to assert some kind of leadership within the process. I'm…

— Karyn Kusama

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

— Fred Savage

I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's…

— Tadanobu Asano

'Vicky Donor' or 'Madras Caf,' John's films have been path-breaking. I have full faith in the script of my movie, and my…

— Harshvardhan Rane

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He…

— Edward Norton

A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character,…

— Eva Green

The shift for me, after spending a long time trying to take existing projects and bring them to fruition as a director…

— Miguel Sapochnik

I feel that the director's job is special because you're there the whole time while people come and go. You start alone…

— Eva Victor

Some day we're gonna have interactive television where you can pick the shot that you want. You can watch defense, or you…

— John Madden

I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens…

— Columbus Short

I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun…

— David Labrava

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd…

— Tatiana Maslany

Every director I've ever admired has a beard.

— Peter Horton

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

— Max von Sydow

Whether we have a new or an old director doesn't affect my work.

— Nana Patekar

I think I'm ready to bring my style to a comedic movie as a director.

— Eugenio Derbez

There is a certain creative liberty an actor or a director is allowed to take.

— Shefali Shah

It's good to work with a writer-director.

— Raashi Khanna

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

— Peter Stone

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious.

— Judah Friedlander