Directors Quotes · Page 15

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

— Iain Glen

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

— Dakin Matthews

“turn over the reins to the board of directors.”

— Bryan Burrough

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

— Shekhar Kapur

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

— Joe Wright

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

— Roman Polanski

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

— Julian Fellowes

In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.

— Phyllida Lloyd

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

When we don't say 'male director,' then why call them 'female directors?'

— Jaideep Ahlawat

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

— Lake Bell

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.

— Jafar Panahi

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things.…

— Emma Stone

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors,…

— Gillian Jacobs

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of…

— Topher Grace

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes,…

— David Letterman

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

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around…

— Dean Cain

I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me…

— Niall Matter

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer…

— Harold Ramis

It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do…

— Gemma Arterton

When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors…

— Albert Brooks

Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All…

— Sally Hawkins

The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones.…

— Willem Dafoe

Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I…

— Pauly Shore

It's very difficult to put together an independent movie and a lot of times people really don't hire casting directors for that.…

— Barbara Crampton

The play I was doing [on a Broadway ], I was playing an obnoxious, outspoken kid, so [the director James Lapine ]…

— David Krumholtz

Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In…

— James Berardinelli

In Korea is what I do is I watch the playback of each take with all of the actors and spend a…

— Park Chan-wook

It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money…

— Gore Vidal

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Any advice I could give to female directors would be the same as for males: There will be endless difficulties, some seemingly…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want…

— Bethann Hardison

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most…

— Warren Farrell

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

— Tyler Perry

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

— Roger Corman

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.

— Shraddha Kapoor