Directors Quotes · Page 130

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

— Steve Martin

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great…

— Wynton Marsalis

I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with…

— Jim Jarmusch

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

— Sam Worthington

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've…

— Kristen Stewart

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I…

— Jodie Foster

I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or…

— David Gilmour

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual…

— Neill Blomkamp

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 think all directors should be animators...

— Steven Spielberg

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing…

— Sergio Leone

It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an…

— Rachael MacFarlane

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

— Logan Lerman

I do feel, like everyone, there's not enough female directors out there, there's not enough female producers, and would like to see…

— Barbara Crampton

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small…

— Jafar Panahi

We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a…

— Eric Idle

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of…

— Arne Glimcher

The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you…

— Jennifer Beals

I recognize the amount of time that it takes as a director. I made the choice to stop taking roles outside of…

— Regina King

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

— Ransom Riggs

I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which…

— Paul Reubens