Directors Quotes · Page 44

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I've become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the…

— Evan Daugherty

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

— Spike Lee

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and,…

— John Ford

I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't…

— Sonam Kapoor

I had no idea whether I could play 'em or not, but I wanted to and I was very determined... but the…

— Karen Carpenter

I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that…

— Brad Furman

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And…

— Ben Kingsley

You never know as a director what other directors do. Because you don't get to see what they do.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Every time a director calls me and says, 'If you practice a lot in two months, can you be an American?' And…

— Melanie Laurent

Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.

— Vin Diesel

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Anonymous

[ Being director] is really reassuring to me that it's just about who is right for that role and less about if…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Actually, the few good Chinese movies that foreign countries choose to import are Zhang Yimou's, and mine, a few directors, but how…

— Jackie Chan

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it,…

— Len Wein

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

— Joan Crawford

No 'mise en scène' has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in…

— Mark Steyn

I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling…

— Shannyn Sossamon

Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I…

— Jennifer Lawrence

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

— Peter Stormare

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

— Jonathan Frakes

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm…

— Michel Hazanavicius

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

— George Clooney

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

— Omar Epps

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it…

— Jordan Peele