Directors Quotes · Page 31

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

— David Wenham

It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

— Lenny Henry

A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents.

— Orson Welles

Most actors who direct do it because they've been directed by so many bad directors.

— Adrian Pasdar

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

— Bai Ling

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

— Andre Balazs

I love directors who talk action as opposed to emotion.

— William H. Macy

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

— Jessica Chastain

A director could be 20 years old and an actor 60, or vice versa; it doesn't matter. It's about connecting sensibility and…

— Juliette Binoche

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those…

— Lew Wasserman

I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what…

— Ian Mckellen

I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky…

— Powers Boothe

They say that theater is the actor's medium, television is the writer's medium and film is the director's medium, and it's really…

— Charlie Hunnam

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they…

— Ben Kingsley

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite…

— Andrzej Wajda

I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly…

— Nat Hentoff

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. I've probably done 20 movies…

— Famke Janssen

I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the…

— Dustin Hoffman

I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm…

— Lake Bell

Hillary Clinton ripped FBI Director Louis Freeh on Wednesday. She said she can't understand how FBI documents could vanish and then mysteriously…

— Argus Hamilton

I'm a film director. Gay is an adjective that I certainly am, but I don't know that it's my first one. I…

— John Waters

I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so…

— David Schwimmer

Every director is different. One of the great things about getting to work with so many directors in one TV series is…

— Beau Willimon

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

— D. W. Griffith

People believe I am selective. I am not. Directors pick me, not I them.

— Victor Banerjee

I love rehearsing, but a lot of directors don't, and some actors don't.

— Viggo Mortensen

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

— Jason Reitman

I want to be a part of the best movies that are being made, and to work with the best directors.

— Vaani Kapoor

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

— Corey Feldman

I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.

— Martin Scorsese

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

— Steve Antin

When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.

— Andrew Lau

I think the mark of a good director is that they surround themselves with good people.

— Sarah Gadon

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

— Rebecca Romijn

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

— Ryuhei Kitamura

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.

— Charles Durning

I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.

— Anurag Kashyap