Director Quotes · Page 40

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I am not so comfortable in short clothes and I will definitely question a director if I am asked for skin show…

— Regina Cassandra

I think that I learned a studio system prefers a sort of professionalism from the director.

— Doug Liman

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

— Shahrukh Khan

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is…

— Cliff Curtis

I hope that in another way we can move the need to say, instead of being a Black director, or a woman…

— Kari Skogland

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes…

— Gerard Depardieu

Never COMPLAIN about the DIFFICULTIES of LIFE… Bcoz.. a Director always gives the HARDEST Roles to His BEST ACTORS.

— Ritu Ghatourey

As far as getting my start, it was really Norman Lear, even aside from being on 'All in the Family.' He helped…

— Rob Reiner

When my business partner Rob Smethurst rang me up and said he wanted to rebuild the club as Macclesfield FC, and to…

— Robbie Savage

No director directs 'Game of Thrones' without reading all the episodes and knowing what's going on. All the episodes are written in…

— Alex Graves

I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with…

— Toby Jones

A play called 'Bichchu' with Om Puri in the main role was going to be staged and I was working backstage. An…

— Satish Kaushik

Writing is a black-box proposition. You see actors; you can see what they're doing. You can watch the director on set doing…

— Shane Black

A good director is like a good coach. You want to play for him. You want to really show him your good…

— Michael Pena

A director should not define everything. For me, the movie is a form of a question I pose to the others or…

— Kim Ki-duk

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

— John Hughes

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

— Ryan Reynolds

Every new director you work with, brings in something new and has perhaps cast you because your last work was good.

— Jitendra Kumar

I am not trained to be a director or an actor. I have learnt everything by watching other people work and studying…

— Farhan Akhtar

Acting is about animality. It's great to be allowed to be animal. But I feel more alive as a director. Every morning,…

— Mathieu Amalric

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that…

— Spike Jonze

Whether it's t-shirt and jeans or full monster suit, I'm still an actor underneath it all, and a good director is going…

— Doug Jones

During script narrations, if I feel the screenplay mood jumping abruptly, I tell the director, and they work on it.

— Vijay Sethupathi

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

— Steven Soderbergh

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

— Bobby Farrelly

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances,…

— Rajkumar Hirani

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

— Howard Hawks

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

— Clint Eastwood

So your job as a director is to constantly try to stay at the steering wheel and pull it hard left or…

— Gareth Edwards

'Wake Up Sid' was a very special script. It was director Ayan Mukherjee's first film and it was beautifully written.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Lots of people said that I have been a comic actor for such a long time, but as a director I was…

— Satish Kaushik

We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for…

— Laura Carmichael

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

I'm extremely unhappy with the projection of 'Tum' as a hot film. It's demeaning not just to me but to the producer…

— Manisha Koirala

About film direction, nothing is impossible. Maybe someday, you will see me donning the director's hat.

— Rituparna Sengupta

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

— Steven Spielberg

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

— Matt Reeves

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

— Tom Clancy

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

— Robert Carlyle