Director Quotes · Page 25

As a director, you should choose a project that will educate you and enrich your life, because you're going to be doing…

— Rob Marshall

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to…

— Julianne Moore

My career is based primarily upon finding a balance with a director and their vision, and that means sublimating my own personal…

— Robert Richardson

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

— Andre Øvredal

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist…

— Elvis Mitchell

As a viewer, I liked screenwriter Park Jae-bum's writing and director Kim Hee-won's directing.

— Jeon Yeo-been

The core of a director is the person's tastes in what elements go together and how they go together. It's a puzzle.

— Andre Øvredal

'Cuban Fury' was a big production for a first time director to handle: I think it is very easy to become very…

— Kayvan Novak

One of my favorite things about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is the creative environment that has been designed for us by…

— Dove Cameron

I am a director's actor. I love the environment of the set, I want to be there and I try to understand…

— Jisshu Sengupta

I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I…

— David Lynch

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but…

— Albert Brooks

I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting…

— Bill Pullman

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To…

— Diablo Cody

Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember - my dad is also an actor and a…

— Seth Numrich

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got…

— Sullivan Stapleton

I actually started as a director, but then I saw Mark Ruffalo in 'You Can Count on Me,' and I thought to…

— Reid Scott

The secret is you need a director who refuses to walk away and you need a director willing to put their whole…

— Ruba Nadda

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

— Leander Paes

As an actor you can always blame the director or writer for negative feedback. But as a writer, you're the reason why…

— Zawe Ashton

A very quick way to annoy me as an actor is a director trying to tell me what my character's thinking.

— Lily Gladstone

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

— Liz W. Garcia

I have mixed feelings over the dismissal of James Comey as FBI director. We served together at the Department of Justice and…

— Matthew Whitaker

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

— Jacques Rivette

I like it when an actor is secure enough to ask questions, and the director is secure enough not to be threatened…

— Paul Haggis

I like writing because when I grow up, I'm going to be a script writer and a director.

— Jacob Tremblay

I think listening to the director is the number one strength an actor should have.

— Varun Dhawan

As an actor, we can only do what the director wants. Only the director has a vision of the entire film.

— Mohanlal

I had always wanted to don the director's hat and was waiting for the right time.

— Salim Kumar

My director Shakun Batra, I believe, is one of the finest in the industry and he has been the dream director I've…

— Ananya Panday

I made my debut in 2004 as a fresh faced teenager in a small role in director Kamal's Manjupoloru Penkutty.'

— Shamna Kasim

I want to work with Sriram Raghavan, Imtiaz Ali, Karan Johar, and, of course, any other director who is offering a great…

— Kriti Kharbanda

I would love to see Steven Spielberg working. I just think he's the greatest living director.

— Peter Segal

When I was doing 'The Prime Gig' with Vince, we played around so much that the director separated us like children!

— Romany Malco

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

— Rebel Wilson

I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a…

— Jay Duplass

From Rebecca Miller, I took the idea that the director needs to arrive every day an hour ahead of everyone else and…

— Greta Gerwig

I am quite an insecure person, and I think that, like any director, if I'm asked about my vision for a piece,…

— Marianne Elliott

In director V K Prakash's 'Poppins,' I'll reprise the same role I did in its Kannada version.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

— Vicky Kaushal