Director Quotes · Page 45

Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level…

— Tom Perrotta

Aamir once went behind a rock to cry because his director didn't listen to what he was saying.

— Twinkle Khanna

I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.

— Sam Levinson

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

— Dwayne Johnson

My first time nude was with a woman director, so I thought it would be easy, but it wasn't.

— Sarita Choudhury

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's…

— Shonda Rhimes

Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened…

— Julianne Moore

Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's…

— Charles Best

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director…

— Stephen Lang

'Ramaiya Vastavaiya' means, 'Ram, will you come?' The movie is a remake of the Telegu film 'Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana,' which was my first…

— Prabhu Deva

Look at Kartik Aaryan, Ayushmann Khurrana - they aren't from the industry, they worked very hard. Varun Dhawan is a great actor.…

— Vatsal Sheth

When I work, obviously the material is the first and most important thing. Then the director and who I'll be working with.…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance…

— Ian Rush

A successful director is someone who has the combination of skills that you can learn, but there's also an intuitive sensibility that…

— Rick Heinrichs

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling…

— Fede Alvarez

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would…

— Denis Villeneuve

Sometimes you get the luxury of having a script for a really long time, and you can get to talk with the…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

— Jean Renoir

I believe in giving myself up completely to the director and do what he wants me to.

— Binnu Dhillon

As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.

— Jonathan Levine

After starting with 'Premam,' asking director Chandoo Mondeti to do a remake was a mistake because he has much more potential and…

— Naga Chaitanya

People expect a lot from a commercial director. It's not right to always expect another 'Viraasat' from me.

— Priyadarshan

When I went back to the White House to be the communication director under Obama, I was six-months pregnant.

— Jen Psaki

In 2011, I negotiated to sell a plot that I owned near the airport to RKW Developers whose director was Dheeraj Wadhawan.

— Raj Kundra

I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

— Oscar Isaac

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

— Kathleen Kennedy

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

— John Waters

I like female directors that gravitate toward masculine things. I think the danger of a male director is the over-fetishization of the…

— James Ransone

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the…

— David Bryan

You try to work with the director and your fellow actors to get somewhere, but other people are the judge of whether…

— Ciaran Hinds

I primarily look at how a role is laid out by the director. I take into consideration my co-stars, before signing a…

— Divya Dutta

Your Life Is A Movie, which you Direct, Star, and choose who cast, don't let anyone change the script.

— Taelor Chardae

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

— Todd Haynes

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

— Javier Bardem

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

— Johnny Depp

When I turned director, I enjoyed the challenge of making an actor perform to his best.

— Nizhalgal Ravi

When the director narrates the story, I try to understand how he wants me to do my role and I try to…

— Rao Ramesh

If people knew who I was I would not have able to experience the grind that an assistant director goes through.

— Akshara Haasan

My father is an action director and he often worked with Veeru Devgnji. That's how I would end up at Ajay Devgn's…

— Sunny Singh