Directors Quotes · Page 2

I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

— Hal Holbrook

I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.

— Vera Farmiga

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

— Marianne Elliott

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

— Sarah Gadon

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

— Colin Hanks

Every director is so different from every other one.

— Peter Fonda

(When asked what a director does) I help.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

— Joss Whedon

You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

— Victoria Justice

A good actor's director, first of all, is prepared, so there's not an exorbitant amount of wasted footage.

— William H. Macy

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

— Alexander Mackendrick

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

— ASAP Rocky

Sometimes your films don't do well, despite having a big star cast, renowned directors and producers.

— Bhumika Chawla

I've worked with a lot of great directors and often times they solicit your ideas.

— John C. Reilly

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

— Craig Mazin

It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're…

— Laura Bailey

Every director works differently but one thing's important: they must have a vision. If they don't have a vision I don't care…

— Kurt Russell

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Women are making strides in many areas and women have mentored and supported me along the way. I think that women are…

— Nina Jacobson

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women…

— Helen Mirren

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting…

— Ben Affleck

When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

— Adam F. Goldberg

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy

I absolutely loved it, and I loved the way the character of D'Artagnan had been portrayed. I was just well up for…

— Luke Pasqualino

It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director,…

— Mary Harron

The Vietnamese Hoa were merchants and manufacturers. They were very successful and thus, according to the logic of Marxism, responsible for society's…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

I'm always trying to find something unique or a project that I can do something unique in. When the director has a…

— Josh Hartnett

The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic…

— Channing Tatum

I find that a lot of actors who are good and open to challenges have lived a full life. When you walk…

— Idris Elba

A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I…

— Pietra Brettkelly

I kind of started with this foundation, and tried to do all the research I could do for Alice [Cullen], and then…

— Ashley Greene

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge…

— H. L. Mencken

The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the…

— Harold Clurman

I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the…

— Steven Spielberg

I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.…

— Brent Spiner

Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in…

— Alan Rickman

The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he…

— David Denby