Director Quotes · Page 15

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

— Andy Serkis

Working with Sam Mendes was a dream come true. He's unbelievable as a director.

— David Burtka

I'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor.

— Melissa Leo

I'm an executive director at a company which gives out retail loans.

— Ravi Subramanian

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

— Marc Jacobs

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

All my films have turned out well only because of the director's brilliance, not because of me.

— Vijay Sethupathi

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer, and my mom's a director and writer. Even when I was young,…

— Troian Bellisario

Tell me about one son of a famous director who makes films like his father? Why do you expect a student to…

— Tinnu Anand

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.

— Grant Heslov

The Hindi remake rights for 'Visaranai' have been bought by director Priyadarshan.

— Vetrimaaran

A game director, in my mind, is somebody who makes everybody on the team miserable for the duration of the project.

— Cory Barlog

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a…

— Takashi Miike

When I made 'The Notebook,' the director, Nick Cassavetes, who is John's son, used to show me his father's movies.

— Ryan Gosling

Music is contagious and everywhere and democratic, and that's what drew me in. I was interested in acting and being a director,…

— Christine and the Queens

Actors sometimes say they can't do something because their character would never do that. The director Suri Krishnamma once told me he…

— Tara Fitzgerald

My associate director, Lisa Leguillou, is remarkable: flying around, visiting all the companies. She is truly the unsung hero of 'Wicked'. She…

— Joe Mantello

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and…

— Juliette Lewis

I got my MFA from AFI as a director in 2010. I've had time to make the shorts that I made previous…

— Ari Aster

When I was 16, I was in a film called 'The Patriot.' I spent every second I could on the set watching…

— Gregory Smith

Even after nine flops, an actor will get his tenth film. But, if a director gives a flop after nine hits, he…

— P. Vasu

I'm all for art-house foreign directors - I think they make terrific films - and I'm also for the bigger budget movies.…

— Mia Goth

I do not hide my feelings, though sometimes I get carried away. I can't remember what humiliation I had suffered at the…

— Persis Khambatta

You can't create chemistry. In fact, the chemistry between two actors is for people to see, sense, and judge. The only thing…

— Deepika Padukone

In '32 we organized the Young Negroes' Cooperative League and had some degree of success in terms of establishing stores and certainly…

— Ella Baker

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 director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with…

— Richard Stanley

Pishevar, co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, is a powerful figure in the Valley and a bridge to establishment figures on…

— Emily Chang

There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders…

— Tamzin Merchant

“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

I would like to have a managerial career as a director.

— Giorgio Chiellini