Directors Quotes · Page 33

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

— Michael Ironside

Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set…

— Andre Bazin

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three…

— James Lipton

My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what…

— Emilia Clarke

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and…

— Rupert Friend

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much…

— Jason Bateman

In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift from…

— Ed Murray

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a…

— Grant Heslov

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm…

— Sophie Turner

I do what the directors want me to do with all sincerity and devotion. And ultimately my sincerity pays.

— Navya Nair

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

— Ray Liotta

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a…

— Paul Newman

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major…

— Owen Wilson

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting,…

— Laurieann Gibson

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

— Jacques Rivette

[ Gareth Edwards] never wanted to force anything that wasn't true. He's very much an actor's director, and it was loose.

— Alan Tudyk

I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

— Imogen Poots

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

— Jamie Dornan

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director.

— Melanie Griffith

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to…

— Stacey Dash

[Bong Joon-ho'] is quite different but technically, he is as clever as [Alfred] Hitchcock. That's saying something. In humanitarian terms, I think…

— John Hurt

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director…

— Kyle MacLachlan

I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and…

— Helena Bonham Carter

It's depend of the communication, I think it's very important to let the director make his own vision of the character, not…

— Xavier Gens

I have always been a director first and the whole acting thing just happened because none of my friends wanted to be…

— Shane Dawson