Directors Quotes · Page 13

My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

— Orson Welles

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

— Brahmanandam

I don't think I worked with wrong directors.

— Zayed Khan

Directors were apprehensive in trying comedy with me.

— Kunal Khemu

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

— Ted Kotcheff

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

— Gene Wilder

I don't go by brand names for directors.

— Anushka Shetty

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

— Charles S. Dutton

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

All my directors have tried to draw the best out of me at that point of time.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them.

— Julian Ovenden

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

— Gia Coppola

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

— Jet Li

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work

— Tea Leoni

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

— Robert Carlyle

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a…

— Roland Joffe

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

— Julia Stiles

I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and…

— Mike Mills

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted…

— Rod Serling

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

— Audrey Tautou

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a…

— Rebecca Eaton

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the…

— Max Greenfield

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely…

— Summer Glau

By the way, I'm not sure the managing director who was 50 in 2005 understood that the job had changed - that…

— Ken Moelis

I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that…

— Josh Peck

I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so…

— Jason Statham

Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have…

— Andre Holland

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible.…

— Brigitte Bardot

That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was…

— Barry McGuire

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

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has…

— Douglas Booth

Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my…

— Bianca Balti

We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be…

— Madison Grant

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why…

— Michael Haneke

Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead…

— Donald Margulies

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

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this…

— Mike Lofgren

Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a…

— Van Jones