Directors Quotes · Page 17

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

— Christopher Eccleston

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

We never intended to be comedic directors; it was just something we fell into.

— Joe Russo

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

— John Frankenheimer

What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.

— Christina Ricci

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

— Sergio Leone

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

— William H. Macy

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's…

— Jason Reitman

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make…

— Denzel Washington

The funniest thing is that all the things every director goes through, I thought I could shortcut, but there was no getting…

— George Clooney

I actually love Scorsese comedies. He's an underrated comedy director. I think his comedies are some of the best comedies ever made.

— Julie Delpy

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed…

— John Sherman Cooper

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

— Steven Spielberg

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

— Peter Jackson

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're…

— Janeane Garofalo

I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now.…

— Colin Firth

To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather…

— Woody Allen

Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a…

— Winston Churchill

I worked with fantastic actors, fantastic directors. People I would never otherwise have met. Was I limited? Yes. Did I use it…

— Valeria Golino

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long…

— Kevin Conroy

When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm…

— Noel Clarke

How often do we use other people as screens upon which to project our obsessions? Our discontents, dreams, desires, and fears? Well,…

— Bradford Morrow

I think being partnered with C. Wonder as their creative director and also getting to kind of educate her on how to…

— Brad Goreski

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,…

— Alexander Hamilton

Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.…

— Michel Legrand

Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:…

— Jeffrey Zeldman

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's…

— Dustin Hoffman

Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des…

— Sebastian Smee

I don't want to rescind American directors but I think that European directors in general, because of the size of the nations…

— Wes Craven

There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it…

— Lukas Moodysson

In some cases, people are silent; they're being complacent. But we're also seeing people speak out against some of these raids, these…

— Leila Fadel

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.

— Scott Eastwood

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

— Kristin Davis

I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

— Jacques Rivette

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director.

— Georgina Chapman

If you look at my credits, most of them are the same directors over and over.

— Michael Giacchino

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

— Elia Kazan

There are a lot of directors who make big money and do big things and then move out of the 'hood

— Tyrese Gibson