Directors Quotes · Page 23

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.

— William H. Macy

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

— D. W. Griffith

People believe I am selective. I am not. Directors pick me, not I them.

— Victor Banerjee

It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

— Lenny Henry

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

— Orson Welles

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

— Adrian Pasdar

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

— Bai Ling

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale…

— Michael Apted

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

— Howard Shore

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the…

— Paul Watson

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are…

— Nathalie Emmanuel

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me…

— Marilyn Monroe

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in…

— Pedro Almodovar

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of…

— Catherine Deneuve

Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I…

— Bobby Farrelly

My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer…

— Josh Radnor

Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling…

— Maurice Saatchi

It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from…

— Antonio Banderas

I read the books the day before I had met with the director Catherine Hardwicke. The first I heard of it was…

— Peter Facinelli

I love telling truthful honest stories. I suppose I'd love the opportunity to be a superhero within a realistic dramatic piece. It…

— E.J. Bonilla

I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't…

— John Frankenheimer

I hope my talent has something to do with it. I just think this business is so crazy. I obviously do the…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well,…

— Joseph Kosinski

“The Director’s Chair is with Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, etc.), and Robert refers later to this quote from Francis:…

— Timothy Ferriss

The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I…

— John Hurt

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic…

— Pope Pius XI

There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew.…

— Amy Irving

When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll…

— Yvon Chouinard

Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very…

— Alan Chambers

The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those…

— Orson Welles

Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because…

— Jack Jason

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

— James Corden

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

— Billy Wilder

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

— Alex Cox

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

— David Hockney

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

— David Wenham

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

— Sofia Coppola

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

— Amrita Rao

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

— Rosie Perez