Directors Quotes · Page 26

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

— Dino Morea

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

— Kathleen Turner

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

— Denis O'Hare

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

— Stanley Kubrick

I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

— Barack Obama

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing…

— Travis Fimmel

ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the…

— A. O. Scott

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the…

— Sylvia Kristel

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with…

— Roman Coppola

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as…

— Antoine Fuqua

Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound…

— Giorgio Armani

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and…

— Leroy Chiao

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what …" And I'd say, "I know. I read…

— Clint Eastwood

I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career…

— Meryl Streep

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional…

— Darren Aronofsky

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play. It…

— Mark Strong

First and foremost, my hats off to our directors and camera department. That is something I will miss after Longmire. I can't…

— Bailey Chase

The director is the captain of the ship, without question. No matter what their talent or energy level is, everyone on the…

— Melissa Leo

I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually…

— Alex Raymond

I had no idea whether I could play 'em or not, but I wanted to and I was very determined... but the…

— Karen Carpenter

Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game,…

— Anonymous

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags…

— P. J. O'Rourke

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's…

— Lenny Kravitz

I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.The play is…

— Adam Richman

I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to…

— Robert Pattinson

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows…

— Ernest Lehman

I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier…

— John Waters

There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun…

— Quentin Tarantino

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

— Twyla Tharp

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

— Peter Travers

I see what's behind everything the director wants to do.

— Jordi Molla

If I really want to do something, I'll go in and do whatever the director feels that he needs me to do.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

But it can be tough for new composers as directors tend to block you out.

— M. Jayachandran

I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.

— Kathleen Kennedy

One of the wonderful things about being an actor is that every director is different.

— Jane Fonda

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

— Douglas Booth