Directors Quotes · Page 12

Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Being on a set where the director has lost control is just sickening. No one goes the extra mile, theres a lot…

— Christine Vachon

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

— Matt Reeves

I am open to keep on discovering new interesting projects, and little by little I have been coming across very beautiful projects…

— Alfonso Herrera

Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in…

— Anonymous

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

I want to get into the theater. I really wanted to be a theater director, but I turned out to be a…

— Frank Oz

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

— Amanda Seyfried

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the…

— Ice Cube

The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a…

— Alison Pill

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a…

— Michael Patrick Jann

To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu. Cutlets and other fancy stuff, that's for other directors.

— Yasujiro Ozu

Out of nowhere she tells me that Oliver Stone - you know, the director - she's like, 'He has this huge Asian…

— Amy Schumer

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

If all the world's a stage and all the people players, who in bloody hell hired the director?

— Charles L. Grant

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually…

— Daniel Craig

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London…

— Alicia Vikander

Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors…

— Roy Keane

I think I'm a whole lot to handle. I definitely am, on every aspect. I'm the video director. I'm the graphics designer.…

— Kanye West

I've been a full-time composer for many years, and I'm still learning all the time. There is always more than one musical…

— John Keltonic

I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave…

— Angelina Jolie

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Its different being a director. I suppose, especially if its a story youve written and you feel compelled to tell, in some…

— Paddy Considine

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the…

— Stellan Skarsgard