Directors Quotes · Page 143

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own…

— Shirley MacLaine

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they…

— Michael Bay

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish…

— Keith Johnstone

Find something you love and commit. Commit 100%. Put your head down, and work as hard as you can. Make it as…

— Jen McGowan

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

— Andrea Arnold

When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this…

— Aerin Lauder

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

— James Wan

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the…

— Tadanobu Asano

In any of the big acting cities, there are breakdowns that the casting directors put together for the projects that they're working…

— Bostin Christopher

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get…

— Olivia Wilde

I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people…

— Douglas Booth

The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have…

— W. C. Fields

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable…

— Akira Kurosawa

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room -…

— Julia Stiles

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

— Theodore Roosevelt

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked…

— Ken Leung

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not…

— Lukas Moodysson

You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated,…

— Paul Bettany

Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg…

— John Hurt

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the…

— Jason Reitman

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most…

— Todd Phillips

If I were less lazy, when my play was published, I would go and rewrite everything for the reader. But I don't…

— Annie Baker