Directors Quotes · Page 14

There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.

— Penelope Spheeris

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

— Louis Mann

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

— James Franco

I had a whole new respect for directors.

— John Leguizamo

Two directors always come with two thought processes.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

— Sasha Alexander

Any movie's only as good as the director.

— Woody Harrelson

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

— Douglas Booth

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

— Richard King

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

— Adrian Pasdar

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

— Peter Criss

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

— Aaron Sorkin

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

— Ken Adam

Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

— Miles Teller

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not…

— Nick Cave

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at…

— James Franco

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with…

— Stellan Skarsgard

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

— Jacques Rivette

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Mark Shurtleff

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to…

— Leonard Nimoy

I would have never thought that I would hear myself saying that the president of the United States is afraid of the…

— Ray McGovern

I've done a few movies where I really liked the project, but I wasn't sure about the director, and I still did…

— Ray Liotta

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead…

— O. Henry

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.…

— Danny Boyle

In the end, you as a director, of course, are the captain on the ship. You have to say, "Well, we're sailing…

— Baran Odar

I don't think there is any one route to directing… Other than that I think you just have to think 'By any…

— Mary Harron

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes…

— Eric Bana

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the…

— C. Wright Mills

Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing.…

— Peter Sellers

There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia…

— Pankaj Mishra

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our…

— David Rockefeller

Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy…

— Brent Spiner

I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake…

— Ingrid Bergman

It's important for a director to provide as much information, especially when we're working with things that we have to conceive out…

— Zoe Saldana

We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that…

— Nora Ephron