Directors Quotes · Page 154

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how…

— Rosamund Pike

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans…

— Elizabeth Pena

We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw…

— Al Pacino

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

— Magda Gerber

It is when music is added that a film can come to life for a director. A live orchestra, playing the score…

— Robert Paul Wolff

I'm just saying to everyone. The director does not direct the trailer. It's an edited version that takes so many moments of…

— Michel Gondry

Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same…

— Thomas Jane

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

— Colin Hanks

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

— Jason Reitman

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy…

— Peter Fonda

If you didn't get it right and then you have to release a director's cut to undo what the studio made you…

— Neill Blomkamp

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like…

— Elena Anaya

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

— John Krasinski

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

— Ryuhei Kitamura

There are directors, and there are authors. I think I am more of an author than a director.

— Sergio Leone

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted…

— Glenn Greenwald

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

— Patrice Leconte

When you're acting, you're subjective; when you're a director, you're more objective.You're kind of watching from the outside and helping others, and…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman