Directors Quotes · Page 27

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

— Ray Stevenson

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

— Elia Kazan

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

— Catherine Deneuve

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

— Hugh Jackman

The biggest thing I learned is directors don't make a lot of money on a movie.

— Shane Dawson

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

— Alan Cumming

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

— Jean Dujardin

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

— Adam McKay

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you…

— Shirley MacLaine

When you do a movie, it's like going on a journey. It's really like the director is the captain of the ship,…

— Kellan Lutz

I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film…

— Dave McKean

The difference between being an actor and a director is simple. The director has to hide his panic; the actor doesn't.

— Alan Rickman

When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process.…

— Moises Arias

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened…

— Victoria Abril

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he…

— Alfred Hitchcock

Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

— Pauline Kael

The choice that you really have is that you can go and work for TV which is so badly paid that you…

— Robert Schwentke

Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by…

— Ishmael Reed

Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed due to highly invasive and unwarranted…

— Glenn Greenwald

There's a little burst of creativity being director followed by lots and lots of meetings and talking to people and more meetings.…

— Timothy Miller

I walked around my apartment with food in my mouth asking myself: "How do I come up with this voice?" Then I…

— John Leguizamo

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it.…

— Francis Ford Coppola

When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting…

— John Krokidas

Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited…

— Zoe Kazan

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I get to meet different directors and different people.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

— Alden Ehrenreich

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

— Andre Øvredal

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

— Malcolm McDowell

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

— Bill Mumy

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

— Frank Ocean

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

— Mamoru Oshii

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

— Michael Keaton

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

— Liz W. Garcia

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

— Josh Radnor

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

— Chow Yun-Fat

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

— Stanley Crouch

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

— Guillaume Canet

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

— Merton Miller