Directors Quotes · Page 34

You really have to bring your game and know what you want to do. And then, there are the producers and the…

— Adrian Pasdar

It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories,…

— Stan Lee

I've learnt on set with different directors I've worked with.

— Rohit Saraf

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it…

— Brent Spiner

As an actor I can sort of smell a duff note, that isn't full of that much conviction. My worst thing with…

— Matt Smith

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to…

— Gary Oldman

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

— Malcolm McDowell

People think women directors are tough. Truth is, I'm a pussycat and I hate conflict. I just want everyone to be happy…

— Julie Delpy

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a…

— Robert Towne

When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like…

— Viola Davis

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

— Steven Spielberg

The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those…

— Orson Welles

Todd Solondz is one of my favorite directors.

— Eric Wareheim

I came from advertising. For me it's about protecting the director's vision. That's always the goal. There's keeping things on budget and…

— Charles Roven

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever…

— Barry Sonnenfeld

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest…

— John Carpenter

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

— Winona Ryder

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

— M. Night Shyamalan

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning…

— Jackie Chan

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were…

— Noel Clarke

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he…

— Katey Sagal

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

— Iain Glen

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors you want to work with,…

— Robert Pattinson