Directors Quotes · Page 46

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two…

— Douglas Adams

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits…

— Luke Evans

Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted…

— Paul Zollo

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what…

— Steven Spielberg

Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited -…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a…

— Mervyn King

I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then…

— David Gordon Green

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

— Kerry Washington

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's…

— Ti West

I usually work with the director and it's just a collaboration between me and the one person. I think you make good…

— Howard Shore

When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me…

— Yash Chopra

When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who…

— Richard Condon

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors…

— Richard Gere

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up.…

— Al Pacino

Really good director sometimes will kind of see what the actors are doing and then get in there. Because there's the realization…

— Ron Livingston

I also think if you get sort of early success there's always this part of you which feels like, "I need to…

— Robert Pattinson

If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative…

— B. C. Forbes

A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way…

— Julie Delpy

It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I…

— Pietra Brettkelly

In Iraq, until before the war, the women were scientists, museum directors, doctors. I'm not valourising Saddam Hussein or the Soviet occupation…

— Arundhati Roy

We're still at a point where women [directors] aren't allowed to be mad visionaries. We have to prove beyond a shadow of…

— Sarah Polley

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with…

— Roman Coppola

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do…

— Kevin Hart