Directors Quotes · Page 116

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding…

— Benjamin Avila

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

— Famke Janssen

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the…

— Eric Bogosian

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

— Ruba Nadda

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes…

— Tim Roth

There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the…

— Pauline Kael

I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of…

— Madonna Ciccone

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to…

— Cameron Crowe

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

— Stanley Donen

I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck…

— James Brolin

I did a different production with a different director and Bill Pullman. Oleanna­ - the one you saw - we were doing…

— Julia Stiles

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look,…

— Leon Panetta

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's…

— Mary Harron

When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become…

— Louis Leterrier

I really like working with different directors. It's really fun.

— Asia Kate Dillon

[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such…

— Alison Eastwood

As an actress, I always felt like the people you met on set were interchangeable with the people you met on other…

— Brooke Adams

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to…

— Julianne Moore

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

— Luke Evans

You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like…

— Nia Long

History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her…

— George Wein

Also, to get to work with serious filmmakers on this kind of a movie, has elevated these movies. We were so lucky,…

— Elizabeth Reaser

Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.

— Louis C. K

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are…

— Janet Suzman

To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold…

— Henry Jackman