Directors Quotes · Page 41

Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine.

— Francis Ford Coppola

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson

I don't choose my directors, but I choose my scripts wisely.

— Vijay Sethupathi

Martin Campbell is a director who has that ability to marshal so many forces together and create a film.

— Ryan Reynolds

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

— Rob Zombie

So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

— Jodie Foster

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

— Melanie Laurent

I consider it a stroke of luck that I got to work with one of my favourite directors, Mani Ratnam.

— Shraddha Srinath

I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to…

— Luke Evans

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director,…

— Takashi Miike

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language…

— Kerry Washington

Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad…

— Joshua A. Norton

I want to have a great director, and also a great producer and co-stars. And there should be a tight script. After…

— Kajol

There are certain directors who will start talking to you about something, and suddenly you'll be ready to roll, and you'll realize…

— Winona Ryder

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct…

— Ashton Kutcher

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever…

— Clark Gregg

Now Tarantino is making DJANGO UNCHAINED. Everybody is telling me I am in the movie but I've not been asked by Tarantino…

— Franco Nero

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is…

— James Spader

The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm…

— Jackie Chan

The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director…

— James McAvoy

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director…

— Ashton Kutcher

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

It's very bizarre though when you get hired and then the director will say, "I know how this goes." And you're thinking,…

— Christopher Walken

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come…

— Hans Zimmer

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

— John Slattery

The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.

— Peter Stone

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

— Clive Owen

If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.

— Guillermo del Toro

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

— Paddy Considine

Your director is your everything and you devote yourself to them and you want to help create their vision.

— Natalie Portman

I don't make trouble on sets. I think directors like me, so they hire me, but they have to fight for me.

— Joe Don Baker

When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

— Barkhad Abdi

The performance is created by the director. The actor is the material. And I think that has to be true.

— Ian Mckellen

I never had any problem with my producers or directors.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

— Chaske Spencer

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

— Peter Diamandis

I've slept with a few directors but still didn't get the part. Isn't that strange?

— Naomi Watts

I only produce directors and movies that I have a lot in common with.

— Guillermo del Toro