Director Quotes · Page 36

My greatest strength as an actor is that I follow my director's brief completely. The film is always the director's visual baby.

— John Abraham

Every actor and director goes through ups and downs and I feel it's not to right to judge them.

— Catherine Tresa

I graduated from the American Film Institute in 2010, where I studied as a director, and came out with a few features…

— Ari Aster

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to…

— Charles Keating

As an actor, my No. 1 focus was to be on the same page with the writer, director, and producers.

— Haaz Sleiman

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

— Judd Hirsch

Honestly, one of my favorite things about a director is when they understand what an actor brings to their role.

— Chris Messina

The director is a Canadian, Jeff Stephenson, and any time I get a script that has any Canadian component, I'm always immediately…

— Kathleen Robertson

In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues…

— Richard Corliss

My mum worked in a grocery shop and played football, and my dad worked with cars, a sales director, and he played…

— Christian Eriksen

A franchise gives a sense of security to everyone - the director, producers, exhibitors, and even the audience feels that they are…

— Mahesh Bhatt

In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abuses of all kinds,…

— Ronald Kessler

I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections,…

— Ruby Dee

I was on a couple of scholarships. I had a job in the school administrative office. I had a job as a…

— Kevin Spacey

I don't know how it is in other industries, but as far as our industry is concerned, everybody takes their energy from…

— S. S. Rajamouli

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the…

— Abhishek Bachchan

'Barton Fink' owed something to Roman Polanski. As a director, he always goes beyond the obvious narrative drift.

— Ethan Coen

The rehearsal process is the biggest gift you can give to the director and to yourself as an actor because it allows…

— Michael Gracey

As a cinematographer or director, I'm always looking for projects that are able to say a lot with the actor's expressions.

— Reed Morano

I think, to be a director, sometimes you need to have certain hunches - you have to believe in some gut feeling.

— Wong Kar-wai

Farooque Sahab was so natural. It never seemed as if he was pretending to be a character that a scriptwriter or director…

— Sharat Saxena

The director Vetri Raman proves, yet again, why Tamil film industry is a forward-thinking industry in the country today, producing gems year…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited…

— Arbaaz Khan

I chose when I was 30 to change my life entirely and become a director and sit in the dark and that's…

— Craig Revel Horwood

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

— Chris Messina

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

— Emma Kenney

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact…

— Alain Resnais

As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

— Xavier Dolan

Like 'Ken Park's' director, Larry Clark, Germaine Greer deliberately provokes controversy with the cheapest trick.

— Miranda Devine

In the history of Indian cinema I am the only South Indian director who has survived for 12 years and 25 films in Bollywood.

— Priyadarshan

The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book…

— Chester Brown

Cruise director is - I always laugh and say, 'He's the ship's liver,' because almost everything you can think of filters through…

— Willie Aames

I'd grown up doing children's theater there, and I always imagined myself being artistic director of a children's theater company.

— Rachel McAdams

I am an actor who gets into a role only when the director says 'action' and gets out of it with 'cut.'

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I never choose films because of its starcast - the director and the story are the most important factors for me.

— Amaal Mallik

When film director T.K. Rajeevkumar cast me in the role of the iconic Rathi in the new edition of 'Rathinirvedam,' I had…

— Shweta Menon

I have never asked anyone for an assignment; never asked a producer or a director for a role.

— Rekha

I don't think Farah and I will make a film together. She is a director in her own right.

— Sajid Khan

Whether you're an actor, producer, writer, or director, it's all about the story you're going to tell.

— Goldie Hawn

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really…

— Alex Graves