Directors Quotes · Page 22

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

— Vijay Antony

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

— Jerry Weintraub

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

— John Waters

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

— Asia Argento

Some directors work from day to day. I work from moment to moment.

— George A. Romero

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

— Jeremy Piven

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.

— Liev Schreiber

You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.

— J. Michael Straczynski

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

— Janusz Kaminski

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And…

— Ben Kingsley

I feel that more women should turn directors as they are more sensitive and emotional than men - that's a crucial factor…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read…

— George Cukor

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised…

— Wim Wenders

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors…

— Catherine Keener

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

— Luke Evans

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh.…

— Ken Jeong

When you hire great actors, you're lucky, so you just try to create an atmosphere where they can succeed and relax and…

— Ben Affleck

I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this…

— Joan Severance

If you didn't get it right and then you have to release a director's cut to undo what the studio made you…

— Neill Blomkamp

Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all…

— Bill Murray

I’ve been an actor for 10 years now, and if anything I want to talk more about my dad. He taught me…

— Rafe Spall

Well, it gives me the opportunity to make the movies that I want to do, because L'Oreal pays me very well. Also…

— Virginie Ledoyen

I don't really think I have the personality. I am not very external. I don't want to dance on the table and…

— Jodie Foster

You'd put yourself in a play and get to know the system and learn how to be directed, and then you could…

— David Oakes

Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never…

— Pia Zadora

Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a…

— Andy Greenwald

When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them…

— Donald Sutherland

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in…

— Daniel Radcliffe

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

What I think has been wonderful about my life is that it has been diverse, and that I've been able to do…

— Isabella Rossellini

In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New…

— John Butler

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

— Christopher Atkins

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

— Viggo Mortensen

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

— Jason Reitman

I want to be a part of the best movies that are being made, and to work with the best directors.

— Vaani Kapoor

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

— Corey Feldman

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs