Directors Quotes · Page 46

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an…

— Jude Law

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are…

— Dane Cook

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work…

— Catherine Keener

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

— Steve Carell

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

— Denzel Washington

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about…

— Sanaa Lathan

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the…

— John Dykstra

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director…

— Monica Raymund

My advice for other female directors is look for people who really appreciate your vision and are willing to genuinely support you.…

— Linda Hoaglund

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies.…

— Cecile de France

I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do…

— Mike White

I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm…

— Daryl Hannah

I can't imagine living a life without God in my life. He is my best friend, He's my buddy, He's the one…

— Reba McEntire

I was an actor when I was a teenager and it could have been the direction that I headed in. But music…

— Lenny Kravitz

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am…

— Burton Richter

I think that's what makes David Ayer really interesting. He likes to make a tough-y movie, but actually he's a character director.…

— Mireille Enos

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how…

— Joe Wright

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

— Linda Blair

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but…

— Joel Kinnaman

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

— Steven Bochco

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological…

— Vsevolod Pudovkin

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of…

— Fritz Lang

I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm,…

— Robert B. Weide

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director…

— Ricky Schroder

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so…

— Carrie Preston

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I…

— Fede Alvarez

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They…

— Vinessa Shaw

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So…

— Anne Fontaine

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and…

— Jon M. Chu

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to…

— Shailene Woodley

I am lucky that I have worked with some wonderful directors so far - Madhur Bhandarkar and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, among others.

— Divya Dutta

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they…

— John C. Reilly

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell…

— Anne Fletcher

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director…

— Lukas Haas

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

— Jack Welch

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

— Anton Yelchin

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or…

— Francois Truffaut

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how…

— David Zayas

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

— John Boorman