Director Quotes · Page 10

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

— Adam Shankman

I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

— Daniel Espinosa

Every director should take an acting class.

— Paul Feig

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

— Tommy Wiseau

One needs to have a comfort level with the director.

— Saqib Saleem

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

— William Shatner

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

My feeling is, I am best at giving songs as per any director's taste.

— Mani Sharma

Director Alphonse Putharen came to my life as an angel and transformed my families' lives. That's why we named our home 'Premam.'

— Anupama Parameswaran

Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

I learned so much about being an actor by being a director. More than I ever thought I would.

— Chris Lowell

I need a producer who will look for a good script. I need a director whose purpose to make a film is…

— Ajith Kumar

There are a few directors - quite a few - who I would like to work with, but I have never written…

— Udo Kier

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

— Daniel Espinosa

Any director who's also acted understands the fact that every person has a different process and has to be approached differently.

— Steve Zahn

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

— Amy Irving

James Wan is somebody who doesn't have any problem coming in and directing somebody else's script, he'll be the director for hire…

— Leigh Whannell

The experience of shooting a film is about the script, the captain of the ship who is the director, and the way…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the…

— Ted Naifeh

When I work on a movie, I look at the script or watch the film, and I talk to my director or…

— Ramin Djawadi

I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting…

— Luchino Visconti

Even as an actor, much before I turned director or producer, I was somebody who was very involved with every film I…

— Prithviraj Sukumaran

It is really a sad state of affairs if I am still the only commercially successful woman director. We need a lot…

— Farah Khan

I'd love to find a really good Brazilian project, an up and coming director or something. I wouldn't want to do the…

— Kaya Scodelario

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a…

— Patrick Stewart

In congressional offices, you don't have the ability to hire enough people to have a dedicated speechwriter. So mine is my communications…

— Colin Allred

I mean, if you are director like Lars Von Trier who is able to get actors on a table like Lauren Bacall,…

— Udo Kier

I joined the Madras Christian College but dropped out after three months. Telugu music director Ramesh Naidu asked me to assist him,…

— A. R. Rahman

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there…

— Garry Hynes

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot.…

— Andrea Riseborough

My father was a psychiatrist, the medical director of a mental hospital in Scotland, and when I was a student, I took…

— Morag Joss

I went to Quigley Seminary and didn't have the time for basketball because I had to catch the bus after school to…

— George Mikan

“Everything you have heard about the shower scene is true.”

— Paul Verhoeven

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

— Scarlett Johansson

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

— Hannes Holm

I was called the greatest director in Europe, but I was just a hard worker.

— Fritz Lang

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

— Anushka Sharma

You either are a good director or you're not.

— Rebecca Hall

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

— Stanley Donen

I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

— Steve Antin