Directors Quotes · Page 36

I don't believe that all actors should end up being directors.

— Rebecca Hall

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.

— Kathryn Bigelow

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

— Bo Derek

As a composer, I only give directors tunes I'm happy with.

— Vijay Antony

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

— Bong Joon-ho

Cast PURPOSE as the lead in your movie and you will help God, your Director, produce a masterwork.

— DeVon Franklin

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

— Anonymous

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

— Stanley Tucci

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get…

— Richard Jenkins

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

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they…

— Sir Fulke Greville

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They…

— Steve Buscemi

I remember once a vocational director said to Fang, "You must develop some mechanical skills - like getting out of bed."

— Phyllis Diller

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men…

— Michael Haneke

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of…

— Lester Persky

You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult…

— Jeff Bridges

What you want is a comfortable environment that you feel you can invent in. Because film is such a lumbering, technical, huge,…

— Helen Mirren

It's a lucky circumstance when you get to usher in new work, because you are able to ask the playwright and the…

— Gideon Glick

Alejandro Amenabar is a different kind of director than I lot of the directors I've asked for. He really asks you to…

— Ethan Hawke

I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love…

— Matt Bomer

An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but…

— Tobin Bell

My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines.…

— Katie Leclerc

What directors of television drama constantly tell you is 'Don't act it. Don't try. Don't emphasise that word'. Whereas with someone like…

— Rowan Atkinson

Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike,…

— Cary Fukunaga

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

— Adam Rapp

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

— Morena Baccarin

I am a professional and maintain good rapport with all my producers, directors and co-artists.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?

— Mackenzie Astin

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

— Steven Soderbergh

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

— Terence Stamp

Here's the problem: women directors are not allowed to fail.

— Niki Caro

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

— Gabrielle Union

Rituparno Ghosh and Bharathirajaa are two directors who were born to direct.They can make even a stone act.

— Riya Sen

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

— Peter Falk

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

— Stephen Frears

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

— Louis C. K

I think directors who care about their work should be invested.

— Robert B. Weide

I really love the experience of moving things around, in terms of being a director.

— Johnny Depp

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

— Javier Bardem

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory