Directors Quotes · Page 30

You are the executive director and screenwriter of your life.

— Eric Thomas

Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.

— Aaron Eckhart

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

— Edward Norton

I'd like to decide who comes here. I'd like to be the admissions director of New York.

— Fran Lebowitz

The irony of a director going to film festivals is you never get to see any of the films.

— Tom Hooper

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

— Mel Brooks

I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what?…

— Lloyd Kaufman

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was…

— John Lewis

Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of…

— Liz W. Garcia

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks…

— Rob Lowe

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with…

— Roman Coppola

I don't have specific people. There are so many people that I admire and there's directors that I'm desperate to work with…

— Jamie Dornan

I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people…

— George Lucas

In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time…

— Peter Mullan

The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into…

— Simon McBurney

I'm not imprisoned in any one medium. In films I use techniques that are not necessarily what other directors attempt. When I…

— Philippe Claudel

The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. I'm the kind of producer that likes to take a…

— Brett Ratner

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my…

— David O. Russell

We've done a lot of films now about the IRA, we can move on from all that. I loved '71 because I…

— Saoirse Ronan

The weird thing is that, with actors, filmmakers and directors, it doesn't really matter if it's Robert Downey Jr., who's one of…

— Noomi Rapace

A man is still likely to earn more money than a woman, even one doing the same job. You have a far…

— Daniel Craig

The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're…

— Ivan Reitman

Certain directors have that eye where something is beautiful as well as funny.

— Lolly Adefope

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

— James Agate

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

— Samantha Morton

There's so many more female directors than when I started. That's encouraging.

— Sofia Coppola

Not many directors have the courage to make movies that are against conventional, commercial norms.

— Amrita Rao

We all like indie directors - heck, I even married one... but we're divorced now.

— Rosie Perez

I'm glad that so many directors are keen to work with me.

— Nani

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix

The more women directors that get hired, the more practices will shift, top down.

— Marielle Heller

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

— Doug Liman

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.

— Alan Parker

It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.

— James Corden

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

— Billy Wilder

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

— Alex Cox

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

— David Hockney