Directors Quotes · Page 43

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

— Paul Mazursky

She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.

— Christopher Hitchens

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

— Griffin Dunne

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

— John Frankenheimer

I'm an actor's director. I love it when talented actors can bring characters to life.

— Fred Durst

I mean, I'm willing to do anything with Chris Chulack - he's one of my favorite directors I've ever worked with, and…

— C. Thomas Howell

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't…

— Adam Rapp

Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in…

— Orson Welles

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a…

— Robert B. Weide

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it.

— Rhetta Hughes

(As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or…

— Ben Affleck

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my…

— Spike Lee

I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson... I love American movies, but I…

— Monica Bellucci

I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a…

— Zach Condon

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And…

— Reba McEntire

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or…

— Isabella Rossellini

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a…

— Steven Spielberg

A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point…

— Will Estes

I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed…

— Geena Davis

I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much,…

— Joseph M. Kahn

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving…

— Julia Stiles

I'm just trying to find a good project. Work with a good director, someone I really admire. Find a good role.

— Logan Lerman

Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn…

— Michael Rooker

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you…

— Andy Serkis

The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the…

— Chuck Palahniuk

As an actor you don't control the end result. Because you're a director, you get to control the end result. I think…

— Nicole Kidman

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with…

— Dustin Hoffman

Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene,…

— William H. Macy

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

— Robert Zemeckis

It can be a bit annoying if another actor is trying to talk to the director and the wife is sitting on…

— Colin Farrell

My respect for animators and animation directors has gone way, way up and it is just not something you can phone in.

— Gore Verbinski

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

In the past I've worked with directors who saw very much their scene in their head and knew exactly how they were…

— Colm Meaney

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the…

— Patti Smith

I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.

— Joshua Marston

Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing...…

— Campbell Scott

My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and…

— Jay Roach

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

— Jodie Foster

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of…

— Lou Doillon