Directors Quotes · Page 109

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being…

— Naya Rivera

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working…

— Howard Shore

I worked for a lot of directors.

— Tony Gilroy

I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or…

— Daniel Quinn

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun…

— Mickey Rourke

I'm very jealous of actors that swoop in for 20 days, and then swoop back out. When you're a director, you're on…

— Francesca Gregorini

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened…

— Dorothy Arzner

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going…

— Emraan Hashmi

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of…

— Bret Easton Ellis

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or…

— Martin Freeman

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

— Scarlett Johansson

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or…

— Carol Burnett

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

— William H. Macy

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good…

— Samuel Morse

When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the…

— Edward Norton

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

— Georg Solti

John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and…

— Gena Rowlands

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

— Art Buchwald

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

— Ken Loach

I love to tell stories and I love to work with directors and I think I write really visually, which I think…

— John Orloff

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the…

— Edmund Burke

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

— Stanley Crouch

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful…

— Garry Hynes