Directors Quotes · Page 19

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

— Michael Pitt

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

— Richard Farnsworth

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll…

— Takashi Miike

I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked…

— Ken Leung

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to…

— David Oyelowo

I wish I could say that when I didn't agree with a director I defer to him, but I think sometimes I'm…

— Billy Crudup

I worked with Roger Moore on three episodes of 'The Saint.' He is a lovely man, a good director, and was my…

— Shirley Eaton

I like great directors who are scarce. Prolific ones are nice too but for me, there's something about the scarcity that makes…

— Adam Brody

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from…

— Anatoly Chubais

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want…

— Shilpa Shetty

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I…

— Bill Simmons

I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough…

— Kelly Masterson

What a director is looking for is someone who will follow you and no matter what. And if you ask for blue,…

— Luc Besson

I was doing a Broadway play, and I was really new to this business. The Broadway play was my first job, literally.…

— David Krumholtz

I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French…

— Julie Delpy

A lot of directors keep writers away because the writers know the script better than anybody, obviously they do, and they have…

— Glenn Ficarra

You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years…

— Eli Roth

I'd like to produce. I'd like to come up with ideas and collaborate with people and directors and writers that I like,…

— Emma Stone

The criteria [to take or refuse the role] is that I would love to have some kind of dialogue or communication with…

— Mads Mikkelsen

“Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the…

— Christian Bale

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's…

— Christopher Hitchens

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of…

— Indro Montanelli

It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a…

— Judd Nelson

I'm a huge fan of director's cuts or reassemblies if they're good, but I remember being really excited about the restored version…

— William Monahan

One of the young production assistants (on 'Terminator: Salvation') stepped over to my chair and said, 'Mr. Ironside, are you any relation…

— Michael Ironside

We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record…

— Edward Snowden

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

— John Hurt

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

— Jason Reitman

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

— Mark Rydell

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

— Judd Nelson

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman