Directors Quotes · Page 3

I like special directors, and I've collected a few.

— Udo Kier

Directors typecasting actors is passe.

— Amrita Rao

I have worked with some very great directors.

— Ray Walston

I have worked with some great directors.

— Dabney Coleman

I had no plans to be a director.

— Mike Figgis

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

— Brett Ratner

Many music directors have studios at home.

— Bhushan Kumar

Ultimately in the end, it's the director's choice

— Donnie Wahlberg

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Twelve years on sets watching directors, I've taken a bit from everybody and rejected a lot.

— Christopher Eccleston

A lot of times, directors don't know how to speak to actors, or writers don't know how to communicate.

— Michael Mosley

Aditya Chopra is my mentor and one of my favorite directors.

— Shraddha Kapoor

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

— Tyler Perry

As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

— Roger Corman

I'm seen as a little risky to the industry, I think. All my favorite directors are.

— Sean Baker

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

— John Cassavetes

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal…

— Sylvester Stallone

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my…

— Philip Glenister

I just really want to continue to play those roles where I really have something to do, and mainly, above all, work…

— Alden Ehrenreich

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots…

— Stanley Tucci

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on…

— Anonymous

There is a dearth of senior artistes in Kollywood and it is up to the directors to utilise my potential and experience.

— Sathyapriya

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on…

— Bernie Mac

I had a sort of bad experiences as a playwright early on, when directors were putting in huge concepts that I didn't…

— Adam Rapp

What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

You've got to be flexible. Directors do a massive amount of planning and homework, and if after all that your director decides…

— Michael Caine

You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend…

— Denzel Washington

Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was…

— Dave Barry

If the audience gets everything, if they see the photography and notice that it is good, then the story goes out the…

— Frank Capra

If you look at what Ben Affleck has gone on to do, as an actor and as a director, it's extraordinary. But…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each…

— Helen Fisher

There was a very important superintendent of Yellowstone, a man who was involved in the founding of the National Park Service itself,…

— David Quammen

I generally enjoy the rehearsal process because that's where you can share your ideas, get your thoughts and feelings out and see…

— Nicolas Cage

When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious…

— Brett Ratner

Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an…

— Kurt Russell

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the…

— James Thurber

In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female,…

— Diahann Carroll

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you…

— Irving Langmuir

Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best…

— Jean Smart