Director Quotes · Page 34

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

— Tom Sturridge

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

— Steven Spielberg

I'm keen to go back to Hindi films, both as an actor and even better, as a director.

— Rahul Roy

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of…

— Jordi Molla

I like challenges, I like that fear you feel for something new, and with a new director, I think it's very important…

— Kate del Castillo

Notwithstanding my personal affection for Director Comey, I thought it was appropriate to seek a new leader.

— Rod Rosenstein

Luckily, as a director I can just tell people what I need and I don't need to tell them how to get…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

— Joan Crawford

I had this one audition - I won't say the casting director's name, but she was on the phone the whole time…

— Tituss Burgess

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or…

— Gary Ross

I had just screen-tested with the director for another prince for a Disney project. I won't say which one, but I'd kind…

— Nicholas Galitzine

I am Hollywood's hottest young, middle-aged director, but I'll write out of New York because I don't want to become a salad…

— Michael O'Donoghue

In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy,…

— August Wilson

My father was a television director and producer, working on documentaries and current affairs programmes including 'Panorama,' and I didn't think he'd…

— Sarah Alexander

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then.…

— Derek Jacobi

So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting…

— Lynn Shelton

I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.

— Dan Gilroy

I was the first black director on 'Dallas.' I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who…

— Bill Duke

I was the kid in the neighborhood that was directing everyone else. I was director from the time I was a child.

— James Gunn

I will continue to work with newbies as long as the script and the director are good.

— Radhika Pandit

There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be…

— Alex Graves

As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to…

— Valeria Golino

For me it is important to mould myself as the director wants. That's my challenge as an actor.

— Javed Jaffrey

While WHO has never had a director from Africa, no one should elect me because I am from Africa.

— Tedros Adhanom

I previously worked as the director of VisionSpring, a non-profit dedicated to distributing glasses to people in need.

— Neil Blumenthal

I didn't have to do much to get a role in 'Lootera.' I got my debut screen space in Bollywood after director…

— Vikrant Massey

One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and…

— Gina Bellman

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more…

— Shiri Appleby

I don't read scripts. I need the director to narrate it to me. And if the narration is vivid enough for me…

— Sanjay Mishra

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be…

— Dustin Lance Black

Story is the primary factor any day. If I believe that a particular director would do justice to it, I will accept…

— Varun Tej

With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there…

— Barun Sobti

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director…

— Lauren Ashley Carter

I have always accepted films based on what my role is. Of course, I do look at who is playing the lead…

— Meghana Raj

In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

— Bela Lugosi

As an actor, 'Chhichhore' has been one of the most creatively fulfilling projects and I thank my director Nitesh Tiwari for making…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

The performance of a music director should be judged in a holistic manner, which includes songs as well as background score.

— Ilaiyaraaja

When you don't have time, especially for a director, you cannot do exactly what you want to do. You have to cut…

— Marion Cotillard

With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of…

— Eric Fellner

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging…

— Keke Palmer