Directors Quotes · Page 32

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies…

— Parker Posey

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator…

— Bob Balaban

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the…

— Chadwick Boseman

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of…

— Lou Doillon

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change…

— Howard Hawks

Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about…

— Elia Kazan

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

— Jeanne Moreau

I fall in love with every film while I'm doing it. I fall in love with the directors, I fall in love…

— Nick Frost

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

— Parker Posey

I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldn't have dared to think I…

— Marion Cotillard

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from…

— Anatoly Chubais

I'd love to be a huge television director. I definitely want to do that. I could imagine me going more and more…

— Shiri Appleby

What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how…

— Isabelle Huppert

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as…

— Trevor Nunn

Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available.

— Steve Antin

Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they…

— Gary Oldman

I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does…

— Anonymous

When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix,…

— James Denton

As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex…

— Jason Bateman

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you…

— Brad Garrett

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues…

— Sergio Leone

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get…

— Stan Lee

I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of…

— Billy Crystal

There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film,…

— Marshall Brickman

I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage…

— Stephanie Zacharek