Directors Quotes · Page 10

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

— John Landis

I have worked with the best of actors and directors.

— Shefali Shah

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

— Debbie Allen

I worked for a lot of directors.

— Tony Gilroy

Every director should take an acting class.

— Paul Feig

Love who and what you are and what you do.

— Louise Hay

Some directors are like poets.

— Manisha Koirala

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

— Ben Kingsley

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

— Andy Warhol

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

— Channing Tatum

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

— Peter Stormare

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

— Eric Braeden

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

— Dolph Lundgren

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

— Betty Hill

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

— Vincent Cassel

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

— Noah Baumbach

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.

— Holly Hunter

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like…

— Queen Latifah

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here…

— Manny Farber

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music,…

— Cliff Martinez

My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and…

— Michael K. Williams

[Alejandro González Iñárritu] went from Birdman to this - these are incredible ledges that he's stepping out on in making these films…

— Bun B

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then…

— William H. Macy

According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and…

— Paul Rudnick

I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my…

— Nora Ephron

Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is…

— Mathieu Demy

So many directors these days direct by design and shoehorn you into things - direction or blocking - that they had in…

— Christian Cooke

If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive.…

— Matthew Jacobs

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts…

— Ryan Kavanaugh

So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of…

— Joseph Fiennes

Director Park always talked to me about her in a very innocent way, that the story was of her coming of age…

— Mia Wasikowska

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…

— George R. R. Martin

Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And…

— Nora Ephron

At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he…

— Vandana Shiva

J.C. [Chandor] was the kind of energy we were looking for, so we decided to get behind it with all of our…

— Zachary Quinto

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own…

— Jim Jefferies

Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie,…

— Andrew O'Hagan

You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio…

— Rainn Wilson