Directors Quotes · Page 106

I was always waiting for the secret to be handed down to me. Ron Howard asked me what I was waiting for…

— Paul Bettany

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On…

— Katherine Helmond

I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability…

— Sandra Bullock

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

— Max von Sydow

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had…

— Mark Sheppard

(The) process of acting is no different to conventional screen acting, in that it's providing a perfect interface between the director and…

— Andy Serkis

I also really loved the friendship between these two women, and watching these two very different women working in this gritty male…

— Sasha Alexander

Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie,…

— Jason Blum

It's always different, depending on the writer and the director. A collaborator like Graham Reznick delivers a fully finished piece, perfected in…

— Larry Fessenden

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts…

— Damian Lewis

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list.…

— Dan Stevens

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I can rely on me [being a director], unlike some actors. I never got anything less than what I needed from the…

— Russell Crowe

I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had…

— Tim Burton

My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool.…

— Andy Spade

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get…

— Stanley Tucci

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love…

— Willem Dafoe

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever…

— Clark Gregg

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

— Robin Wright

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn

Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that…

— Thomas Jane

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to…

— Famke Janssen

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you…

— Andy Serkis

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

— Diane Paulus