Directors Quotes · Page 4

Directors never give you anything.

— Claudia Christian

I just want to work with cool directors.

— Sophie Thatcher

I've worked with a lot of great directors.

— Catherine Keener

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

— Michael Ironside

I've worked with so few female directors.

— Andrea Riseborough

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

— Christina Ricci

Female directors are slightly less vociferous.

— Rahul Dev

Directors assume I'm, like, establishment.

— Rebecca Hall

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

— Naomi Watts

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

— Melanie Griffith

The great directors, I've learned, have a great sense of rhythm.

— Alexandre Desplat

Any director will tell you, no matter how big his budget, that it's always the budget and the day count.

— Michael Sucsy

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

— Julian Fellowes

In the theatre in the U.K., women are at the very top of the tree as freelance directors.

— Phyllida Lloyd

The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and…

— Stanley Kubrick

[Director Richard Tanne] was inspired by their [Barack and Michelle Obama] flirtation, and their connection. That's not normal with politicians who are…

— Tika Sumpter

From the initial days of my career I have always given importance to two things. One is to heed to directors instructions…

— Pankaj Kapur

I'm a frustrated actor. My ... goal is to beat Alfred Hitchcock in the number of cameos. I'm going to try to…

— Stan Lee

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big…

— Martin Compston

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelow's thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

— Lynda Obst

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys…

— Isla Fisher

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially…

— Bill Skarsgard

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole…

— Jane Campion

I was staying on [writer/director/actor] Eric Schaeffer's couch in New York, and he said, "I've got this movie [If Lucy Fell]. Can…

— Ben Stiller

How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie? Like, I wanted…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I fall in love with all the people I'm working with, women, directors, everybody. As actors, that's actually one of the real…

— Annette Bening

Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off…

— Sheridan Smith

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or…

— Carol Burnett

I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there…

— Famke Janssen

It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and…

— Margaret Atwood

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters…

— Laurence Sterne

The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types…

— Kasi Lemmons

I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television…

— Elijah Wood

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're…

— Anna Faris

If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the…

— Russell Crowe

This is many, many years ago. It was shortly after "Starman" I think. I don't know how close I was to getting…

— Jeff Bridges