Directors Quotes · Page 20

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.

— Dylan O'Brien

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

— Gaspard Ulliel

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

— Gary Sinise

Directors and actors are people whose career spans are very short.

— Sunny Singh

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

— Anonymous

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you…

— Nicholas Meyer

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an…

— Cassie Ventura

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

— Michelle Borth

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate,…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be…

— Orson Welles

There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could…

— Ewan McGregor

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors…

— Peter Mullan

If I have freedom to experiment with a scene, then I try my best to do that. With TV and with the…

— Dominique McElligott

Directors typically have three choices - you do a studio movie and get a paycheck up front, you do an independent movie,…

— Jason Blum

I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it's probably just good for the soul…

— Ricky Gervais

I've worked with a lot great directors who have huge resumes, but I'm really trying to be active in my career in…

— Michael Pitt

I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but…

— Marjane Satrapi

To suddenly be working with one of the top-10 directors in the world, plus the film was in China, I almost blurted…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

And so as a director, as a leader, and myself as a director and a leader, I kind of try to make…

— Brian Henson

When your show keeps coming back, year after year, you have a responsibility because your fans know your show sometimes better than…

— Demian Bichir

I’ve had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it’s about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand…

— Martin Starr

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people;…

— Paul Theroux

I feel like I've been very lucky with the directors. The characters I've been offered, especially lately, have given me the opportunity…

— Penelope Cruz

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…

— Richard Leakey

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing…

— Kenneth Lonergan

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at…

— Bill Murray

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson…

— Wynton Marsalis

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

— Louis C. K

I think directors who care about their work should be invested.

— Robert B. Weide

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

— Johnny Depp

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

— Javier Bardem

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

— Gabrielle Union

Rituparno Ghosh and Bharathirajaa are two directors who were born to direct.They can make even a stone act.

— Riya Sen

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

— Peter Falk

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

— Adam Rapp