Directors Quotes · Page 25

I like bold directors. I like directors that go against the norm in a way...

— Nicole Kidman

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.

— Michael Bay

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

— Sam Worthington

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

— Tommy Wiseau

Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands.

— Abbas Kiarostami

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

— Elizabeth Taylor

For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

— Adam Shankman

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

— Philip Neri

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're…

— Spike Jonze

A good director is very well prepared, and knows exactly how he's going to cut the film, so the shooting is as…

— William H. Macy

I like working with directors I respect, who give me freedom but also give me a good base from which to work.

— Craig Revel Horwood

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting…

— Kenneth Anger

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million…

— Michael Pitt

I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones…

— Woody Allen

It's always fun to get to do independent film because I believe that that's the life blood of film. It's about writers…

— Steve Buscemi

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me…

— Sidney Sheinberg

I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at…

— Angelina Jolie

[ Oval House] director, Peter Oliver, gave you the right to fail. He had a philosophy that came from Winston Churchill that…

— John Ratzenberger

Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never…

— William H. Macy

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing,…

— Amy Seimetz

I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these…

— Jason Reitman

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I didn't really know who [Dario Argento] was at the time. I know him now, obviously. But I went in to be…

— Julie Benz

But you really - I always think that a director has got to adapt to whatever the needs of the actor are.…

— Bill Condon

My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director…

— Erykah Badu

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the…

— Paul Rotha

I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He…

— Mary-Louise Parker

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two…

— Douglas Adams

I also really loved the friendship between these two women, and watching these two very different women working in this gritty male…

— Sasha Alexander

I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations…

— Kofi Annan

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed…

— Brittany Murphy

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into…

— Cate Blanchett

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

— Mark Mothersbaugh

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

— Will Friedle

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

— Carroll Baker

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

— Ida Lupino

Good is the director who lets you do what you have to do.

— Marc Ribot

If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter.

— Akira Kurosawa

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

— Famke Janssen