Directors Quotes · Page 21

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

— Mackenzie Astin

I am a professional and maintain good rapport with all my producers, directors and co-artists.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

— Terence Stamp

Here's the problem: women directors are not allowed to fail.

— Niki Caro

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

— Bong Joon-ho

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

— DeVon Franklin

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a…

— Josh Lucas

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely…

— Summer Glau

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an…

— Antonio Banderas

Our job as directors is to entertain an audience, it's not just to do it for the director. You might as well…

— Frank Oz

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors,…

— Charlotte Rampling

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great…

— Wynton Marsalis

I was lucky that I could work with directors like Kamal, Lal Jose and Sibi Malayil. They understood music and gave me…

— Vidyasagar

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding…

— Benjamin Avila

When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on…

— Zach Braff

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious…

— Julianne Moore

Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come…

— Matt Damon

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director.…

— Ashley Judd

It's definitely been a conscious decision to seek out roles that are different, in any way, from anything that I've done, just…

— Malin Akerman

I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me…

— Anna D. Shapiro

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to…

— Michael Haneke

Like anything to do with trust, in any relationship it emerges and just the chemistry, vibe between two people an actor and…

— Ralph Fiennes

I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good…

— Samuel Morse

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire…

— Paul Auster

In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee,…

— Paul Bettany

I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with…

— Jim Jarmusch

To spend any time with someone who is among the top five film composers of the last 50 years is pure gold…

— Henry Jackman

Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I…

— Kirk Douglas

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

— Anonymous

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

— Stanley Tucci

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

— William Monahan

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

— Bo Derek