Directors Quotes · Page 138

There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films…

— Frank Capra

In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing…

— Wong Kar-wai

I really want to meet and work with JJ Abrams. Everyone talks about what a nice director he is, and he has…

— Ty Simpkins

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

— John Frankenheimer

It felt really nice to not have anybody talking about numbers, and no one is talking about ratings. From my experience, it…

— Taylor Schilling

Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that…

— Bun B

I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk…

— Idris Elba

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

— Ricky Gervais

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really…

— Charlie Kaufman

The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on.…

— Hans Zimmer

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews,…

— Kate O'Mara

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were…

— Zachary Quinto

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie,…

— Andrew O'Hagan

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

— David Yates

It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you…

— Jason Bateman

But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good…

— Emily Deschanel

As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point…

— David Slade

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that…

— Natalie Portman

As far as American directors, Terrence Malick is probably my very favorite.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole…

— Famke Janssen

There's nothing wrong with you that a little Prozac and a polo mallet can't cure.

— Woody Allen

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

— Christophe Lemaire

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

— Hugh Jackman