Directors Quotes · Page 24

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

— Nani

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.

— Marielle Heller

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

— Alan Parker

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

— Mel Brooks

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

— Kathryn Bigelow

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

— Donald Pleasence

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as…

— David Duchovny

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

— Jeff Bridges

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I…

— Patti Stanger

I'm not the kind of actor that gets crazy with [directors'] names, what draws me toward a project is the material itself.

— Javier Bardem

It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is…

— Mark Rydell

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe…

— Aleksa Palladino

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

— Nia Long

Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with…

— Jean Reno

But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good…

— Emily Deschanel

The Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki once stated, 'International cultural exchange is impossible - therefore we must try.' I agree with all my…

— Anne Bogart

Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and…

— Ian Mckellen

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of…

— Jimmy Fallon

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the…

— Patti LuPone

I hadn't studied theatre and I hadn't studied actor training or anything, but I did have a sense of movement and composition,…

— Rob Urbinati

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to…

— Cary Fukunaga

I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you…

— Jude Law

Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning…

— Jackie Chan

“Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and…

— Steven Magee

Sometimes I'll go for something more because of the story, or more because of the director. But, generally, I have to feel…

— Guy Pearce

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from…

— Ed Murray

I discovered very soon, especially for movies, because I started in theater, that every director has his own universe. You have to…

— Antonio Banderas

It's a real testament to the amount of skill and talent involved, across the board, whether it's the production design, the construction,…

— Harry Treadaway

If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home.…

— Annie Baker

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

Certain directors have that eye where something is beautiful as well as funny.

— Lolly Adefope

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

— James Agate

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

— Fran Lebowitz