Directors Quotes · Page 144

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

— Howard Shore

Whether you're acting or you're writing, your skin is just basically ripped off and you're putting yourself out there. At least the…

— Tama Janowitz

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that;…

— Melanie Laurent

I'm very shy. But as a director and especially a female director, absolutely: How I used to walk on the court is…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors…

— Vince Gilligan

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative…

— Amber Benson

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director,…

— Brett Ratner

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am…

— Burton Richter

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a…

— Jacki Weaver

Everyone's a little nervous when you all get together and meet the actors, meet the director. But once you get on set,…

— Kyle Chandler

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium…

— Oliver Platt

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to…

— Martin Donovan

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have…

— Adrian Lyne

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't…

— Drew Goddard

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then…

— William H. Macy

I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may…

— Morgan Freeman

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of…

— Tony Goldwyn

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

I was really fortunate from the time I arrived in Hollywood to work with some of the greatest directors from the beginning.…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

[Doctor Cukrowicz] was basically a role where you have two diva actresses - Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson - and my role…

— Rob Lowe

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola