Directors Quotes · Page 43

The best and most talented directors - and I think it goes for people too - are the most confident in giving…

— Ari Graynor

Interestingly, my first director's cut was an hour and forty-one minutes. Then, the studio actually wanted to add more to the story,…

— Kim Jee-woon

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

— Zachary Cole Smith

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is…

— Joe Eszterhas

In '32 we organized the Young Negroes' Cooperative League and had some degree of success in terms of establishing stores and certainly…

— Ella Baker

In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am…

— Dave Franco

The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into…

— Simon McBurney

Sirk was every womans dream of a director.

— Dorothy Malone

A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've…

— John Milius

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

— Austin Nichols

It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are…

— Mark Rydell

The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because…

— Steven Spielberg

Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and…

— Tony Kushner

Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct…

— Keri Russell

When I auditioned to be part of the "This Is It" Tour, I didn't think I was going to get in. I…

— Orianthi

I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can…

— Patrick Dempsey

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get,…

— Drew Barrymore

Things such as 'Harry Potter', all I can do is shape my character, seek the director's approval on that, and basically take…

— Warwick Davis

Some directors can tell stories and it becomes very intimate and small, and it's almost like a secret. Some directors have the…

— Noomi Rapace

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think…

— Abigail Disney

I think every director has a different methodology.

— Cillian Murphy

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

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

— Lena Dunham

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize…

— Peter Bogdanovich

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

— Malcolm McDowell