Directors Quotes · Page 28

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

— Jack Kilby

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

— David Wenham

I've learnt on set with different directors I've worked with.

— Rohit Saraf

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

— Scott Mechlowicz

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

— Kevin Munroe

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

— Laura Vandervoort

Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.

— Monica Bellucci

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

— Joseph Kosinski

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to…

— Willem Dafoe

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had…

— Mark Sheppard

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way…

— Al Pacino

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very…

— Barret Oliver

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

— Jonathan Frakes

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making…

— Steven Spielberg

Working with green screen, you really rely on the director in a way that you don't on different types of films.

— Amy Adams

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

— Vin Diesel

What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometimes producers just…

— Buck Henry

One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and…

— Garth Kravits

I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give…

— Willem Dafoe

Favourite directors change, like favorite authors. I had a passion for Gide and Stein and Faulkner. But now they're no use to…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I have written screenplays. Most recently for Errol Morris, who was thinking about doing his first fiction movie, and with a young…

— Jim Shepard

As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing.…

— Jen McGowan

The best directors leave you alone. If they've cast you in the part, hopefully they believe you have the gumption to interpret…

— Brenda Fricker

We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of…

— Sarah Polley

It's a strange business, and unfortunately, what we do in animation is a mystery, especially the directors.

— Lee Unkrich

No director wants to be directed, but no good director... would shy away from the good ideas of others.

— Tommy Lee Jones

If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.

— Jackie Speier

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

— Aubrie Sellers

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

— Michael Pitt

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

— Goldie Hawn

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

— Kristen Stewart

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn

With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master.

— Joel Kinnaman

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

— Anthony Michael Hall

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

— Jane Campion

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

— Joan Littlewood

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

— Edward Tufte

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

— Anonymous

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

— Zhang Ziyi