Directors Quotes · Page 38

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

— Eli Roth

I think the best directors aren't afraid to ask questions.

— Stephen Karam

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

— Betty Hill

I worked with young directors all my life, only young directors.

— Vincent Cassel

I think Anand Rai is one of the few brilliant directors we have.

— R. Madhavan

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

— Swoosie Kurtz

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming…

— Park Chan-wook

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

It's just unfair that talent of color aren't given the same opportunities as white and male actors, directors, producers, writers, et cetera.

— Darnell M. Hunt

I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired…

— Joe Pantoliano

I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of…

— Arne Glimcher

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid,…

— Ernst Lubitsch

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has…

— Salman Rushdie

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you…

— Matthew Modine

“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that…

— Ayn Rand

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of…

— William Godwin

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you…

— Eric Balfour

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and…

— Eric Balfour

It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer)…

— Tadeusz Kantor

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've…

— Kristen Stewart

Film’s thought of as a director’s medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen. It’s that stupid…

— Billy Wilder

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but…

— Theodore Bikel

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

— Alexander Payne

The directors I respect are the ones who have a collaborative attitude, who collaborate with actors.

— Eric Braeden

Stallone is a pretty tough director. You don't mess with him.

— Dolph Lundgren

I'm not really a guy who wants to be a director, anyway.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

— Stacey Snider

Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.

— A. O. Scott

I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.

— Debbie Reynolds

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

— Andy Warhol

Some of the top directors have launched their career with me. That's the high.

— Anu Malik

I've always said that movies are a direct mirror of the director.

— Channing Tatum

I started as a director, but I was too bored with actors. I preferred to act.

— Peter Stormare

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

— William H. Macy

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson

David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.

— Scott Eastwood

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

— Kristin Davis