Director Quotes · Page 32

I think, first of all, director Park Shin-woo, of course, is extremely talented and his talent is irresistible.

— Seo Yea-ji

Your director is your main support - actors don't generally give each other advice on set, not in my experience.

— Paul Dano

There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.

— Ken Loach

I never had a mentor. God, it would have been nice, but I just didn't. I look up to Jane Campion. And…

— Niki Caro

The 20-year goal is to be a film director. The 15-year goal is to win an Oscar. The five-year goal is to…

— Tom Holland

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become…

— Richard King

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.

— David Fincher

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at…

— Ronald Harwood

For a shot, I had to look like I've slipped on wet floor and hurt my back. My director wanted me to…

— Harshvardhan Rane

At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a…

— Finn Wittrock

I aspire to be able to appreciate and review a director based on their accomplishments and based on who they are and…

— Jodie Foster

Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't…

— Ranbir Kapoor

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera…

— Hunter S. Thompson

When I was in Mumbai for the promotion of 'Makkhi,' I met Ajay Devgn, Kajol, and Shah Rukh Khan, and I wanted…

— S. S. Rajamouli

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I…

— William Moseley

Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from…

— Bryce Courtenay

As much as I love to travel and be on stage and perform, I knew at a very young age that I…

— Alyssa Edwards

“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.”

— Jean Renoir

I feel Prawaal Raman is an amazing director with great films in his pocket like 'Gayab.'

— Rhea Chakraborty

Sometimes, I've had the experience with a director where I didn't share the same vision of the movie.

— Lauren Shuler Donner

I'd love to work with any director who has their own artistic vision, their own stamp, and who believes in that.

— Stacy Martin

“If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I'm shy to call myself a director still. When someone says, 'What do you do for a living?' I don't know if…

— Angelina Jolie

I was fired from a movie because I did 'Heathers!' I was cast in a movie, and the director saw an advance…

— Winona Ryder

I haven't been a director-for-hire for any project. I work with people who appreciate that, understand that, and want to work that…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

— Marjane Satrapi

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

— Jonah Hill

By going to a preview, a director becomes insidiously infected by the process, so by the end of it, you're thinking, 'It…

— Ridley Scott

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet.

— Maximilian Schell

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that…

— Donnie Yen

Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one…

— Kishore Kumar

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage,…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

Technically, you can learn everything on the set as an assistant director, and rather quickly.

— Milos Forman

A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

— Nicolas Winding Refn

I realised you could become fat and bald as a director and still remain employable.

— Phyllida Lloyd

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

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

— Rakshit Shetty

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

— Christoph Waltz

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

— Florence Pugh