Directors Quotes · Page 33

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

— Twyla Tharp

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

— Peter Travers

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

— Jessica Savitch

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

— Frank Darabont

Get more women producers, writers, directors. Why should we expect men to do it for us? They can't

— Kathleen Turner

There have been times I worked with directors who lost interest halfway into the film.

— Dino Morea

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

— Denis O'Hare

Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.

— Moira Johnston

The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's…

— Mary Harron

If [Donald] Trump wins narrowly, Democrats can blame the loss on FBI director James Comey, who inserted himself late in the campaign…

— Mara Liasson

I've been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it 'Rock on!'…

— Arjun Rampal

Im so lucky to have the opportunity to work with some directors and some actors I wouldnt have dared to think I…

— Marion Cotillard

Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always…

— Dominique McElligott

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then…

— Marc Forster

I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just…

— Alante Kavaite

My grooming as an actor took place after working with top directors like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Gulzar, BR Chopra and Shakti Samantha.

— Asrani

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at…

— Peter Jackson

It was a fabulous experience shooting [in the Aviator], working with Leo [DiCaprio] and Danny Huston in the scene. It was great.…

— Brent Spiner

Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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

Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in…

— Mark Steyn

I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none…

— Paul Rudnick

I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski,…

— Harold Ramis

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

A film actor is just a victim of directors and editors.

— Helena Bonham Carter

Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.

— Brent Sexton

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

— Mario Lopez

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.

— Vera Farmiga

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

— Jaime King

I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.

— Winona Ryder

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

— Denzel Washington

I really just want to work with good directors and learn as much as I possibly can.

— Dylan O'Brien

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

— Gaspard Ulliel

I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

— Gary Sinise

Directors and actors are people whose career spans are very short.

— Sunny Singh

Being a good director is knowing sometimes when not to say something.

— Gary Oldman

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

— Anonymous

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

From John Huston to Fred Zinnemann and Richard Fleischer and all those great American directors.

— John Hurt