Directors Quotes · Page 152

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities…

— Justin Chadwick

It's impossible to put your finger on what that is exactly other than protecting the environment that the actors get to find…

— Ewan McGregor

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't…

— Ayelet Zurer

I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I…

— Julie Davis

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

— Shirley Knight

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s,…

— Amy Adams

I didn't go to acting school, so it was great to be able to rehearse for a month or two, to workshop,…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

For my first movie, I think my first cut was like three hours, because when you first direct a movie, you want…

— Alejandro Amenabar

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

— King Vidor

The process always starts with detailed conversations with the director, followed by a spotting session (deciding where the music goes and doesn't…

— John Keltonic

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are…

— Mike Birbiglia

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing…

— Burton Richter

I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne]…

— Ellen Page

I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.

— Jim Ramstad

I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a…

— Vic Morrow

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

— Jack Nicholson

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

— Mark Consuelos

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible…

— Sigourney Weaver

For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to…

— Mick Garris

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production,…

— Alice Englert

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the…

— Joe Swanberg

I'll be in # Jharkhand along with Kaustav Narayan Niyogi, who is directing the film and my director of photography for location…

— Pooja Bhatt

[Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way.…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs.…

— Takashi Miike