Directors Quotes · Page 34

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

— Jason Reitman

If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.

— Olivia Colman

Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.

— Mark Rydell

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

— Helen Hunt

Matching character and actor is what a good director does.

— Bruno Dumont

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

— Judd Nelson

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

— Ivan Reitman

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

— Seneca the Younger

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person…

— Marion Cotillard

Sometimes if you're a director, you want to believe that you're great and capable at all aspects - the technical side, the…

— Steven Knight

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

— Theodore Roosevelt

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a…

— Martin Scorsese

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

— Truman Capote

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with…

— Robert M. Gates

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working…

— Lynn Shelton

I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been…

— Val Kilmer

Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

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

— Barry Sonnenfeld

Directors like William Friedkin (Killer Joe), Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike) and Lee Daniels (The Paperboy) got in touch with me and wanted…

— Matthew McConaughey

As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's…

— Cary Fukunaga

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it…

— Jordan Peele

I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that…

— Mark Duplass

I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish…

— Keith Johnstone

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

As an actor, youre always nervous as to what a director will do with something.

— Kevin Spacey

I am sure I am one of 2000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

— Park Chan-wook

The record producer is the music world's equivalent of a film director.

— Phil Ramone

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

— Michael Pitt

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

— Richard Farnsworth

I have no qualms approaching directors who I know will help me grow as an actor.

— Naga Chaitanya

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

— Jay Baruchel

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

— Michael Pitt

Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

— Barry Pepper

I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.

— Carter Burwell

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.

— Scott Hicks

I'm not a trained actor. I surrender to my directors, and they make me act.

— Sai Pallavi

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

— Samantha Morton

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

— Eli Roth