Director Quotes · Page 23

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

My job as a director is to communicate, and I want to communicate to all.

— Mani Ratnam

I have always believed Chandra Barot is a very talented director.

— Asha Bhosle

When you're a director, the job itself forces you to take charge.

— Sondra Locke

You can't discuss everything with a male director.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

— John Cameron Mitchell

I believe acting is a director's medium completely.

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

— Jack Nicholson

To be honest, the real reason I did 'Drive' was because of Nicolas Winding Refn, the director.

— Christina Hendricks

The most amazing thing you can ask for as an actor from a director is that you're being seen, that the choices…

— Bertie Carvel

I am a board member and the volunteer director of medical and scientific content for Less Cancer.

— Margaret Cuomo

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

— Joshua Michael Stern

I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.

— T. J. Miller

It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer…

— Peter Morgan

I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the…

— Big Freedia

Sometimes, during a shoot, an actor might fail to turn up or there might be a need for an actor for a…

— Dileesh Pothan

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill…

— Spencer Tracy

Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great…

— Sally Hawkins

A director really doesn't deal with performance that much, especially if you deal with great actors. Their work is the performance. What…

— Zal Batmanglij

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go…

— Tim Blake Nelson

I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on…

— Holly Hunter

As a director, you want to be really connected to every part of your set, from your actors all the way to…

— Eric Balfour

If you're a director and someone shows up and asks how I do it, I'd imagine, as a director, you're like, 'Man,…

— Casey Affleck

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

— Celine Sciamma

It's a lot for one director to do six hours, particularly in the Marvel way.

— Kate Herron

I never wanted to be a creative director.

— Alessandro Michele

It is awkward to see a director on the screen.

— Shekhar Kapur

Drew was a director, and I'm a magician.

— Jonathan Scott

My father was the Florida state director of The Nature Conservancy.

— Hank Green

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

— B. J. Novak

Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

— Orlando Bloom

My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.

— Bel Powley

I run the 'Actors Studio' on the West Cost. I'm artistic director of that.

— Martin Landau

A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.

— Fred Willard

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

— Robert Rodriguez

Don't try to guess what a casting director wants.

— Sian Clifford

I don't judge director on the basis of their last film.

— Vicky Kaushal

I didn't write to become a director, which many people do.

— Richard LaGravenese

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

— Rza