Directors Quotes · Page 12

You either are a good director or you're not.

— Rebecca Hall

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

— Jamie Babbit

Directors who know what they want come to me.

— Rekha

I have a greed to work with good directors.

— Neha Dhupia

Gotta watch out for directors.

— Stephen Sondheim

I never wanted to be a director.

— Albert Brooks

John Huston is more of a creative director than most.

— Robert Loggia

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

— Brett Ratner

I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.

— Stephen Karam

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

— Sergio Leone

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

— Marjane Satrapi

I learn a lot from every director that I work with. I sit on set and watch them, every one.

— Jonah Hill

I was usually asked to do less than I was capable of by directors who had lost control of their movie.

— Hal Needham

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director

— David Mamet

The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.

— Ernst Lubitsch

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an…

— Robert De Niro

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I…

— Maynard Webb

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want…

— Rob Reiner

Truthfully, most directors don't direct actors. Every actor is different, so when you're asked, "How do you approach an actor?," it depends…

— John Landis

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,…

— Alan J. Pakula

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.…

— Aldous Huxley

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

— Jamie Dornan

There are only three reasons to do a movie: the cast, the director, the role. Like I say, you live in a…

— Val Kilmer

The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was,…

— Robert Kazinsky

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to…

— Judd Nelson

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of…

— Whit Stillman

I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started…

— Tate Donovan

Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with…

— Owen Gleiberman

By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's…

— Jeff Greenfield

We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody…

— Miles Teller

Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a…

— Greta Gerwig

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him…

— James Berardinelli

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you…

— Jeph Loeb

Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and…

— Johan Huizinga

You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference…

— Daniel Simon

It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I…

— Ethan Hawke

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls…

— H. L. Mencken