Directors Quotes · Page 47

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how…

— Nathan Fillion

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture,…

— Stephanie Zacharek

I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.

— Norman Fell

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes…

— Kenneth Branagh

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

— Arjun Janya

I'd worked with directors who wouldn't collaborate. Then I've also worked with directors who didn't really know what they wanted. I knew…

— Stuart Townsend

Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have…

— Cuba Gooding, Jr

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple…

— Patrick Macnee

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by…

— Steven Spielberg

I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all.…

— Steven Soderbergh

You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the…

— David Edelstein

A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that…

— Rose McGowan

I'm a big fan of directors like Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar Wai, Chen Kaige, Stanley Tong, Suhar, Ringo Lam, there are so…

— Mallika Sherawat

If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You…

— Jake M. Johnson

The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no…

— Werner Herzog

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working…

— Max Beesley

I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and,…

— Zach Braff

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want…

— Matt Damon

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it,…

— Jack Black

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show…

— Paul Feig

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm…

— Sophie Turner

I think you can study too much. I've seen that happen. Young people get immersed in the work of other directors and…

— James Ivory

All of my fellow directors, I think, would agree that in whatever medium you are working, the challenges and obstacles push them…

— Doug Liman

What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a…

— Jamie Bell

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

— Jeff Tremaine

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job…

— Ryuhei Kitamura

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director…

— Soundarya

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in…

— John Frankenheimer

I will never become a director or a movie producer. I was always looking at picture directing because I didn't know what…

— Liam Neeson

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who…

— Matt Damon

All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and…

— Todd Solondz

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke.…

— Anne Archer

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like…

— Mike Mills

I've been really lucky in terms of film projects with people, terrific actors and also writers and directors that I really respect.

— Ricky Jay

I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set…

— Sarah Gadon

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There are several talented Malayali actresses, but still M-Town directors choose actresses from other states.

— Shamna Kasim

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own…

— Shirley MacLaine

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work…

— Robert Pattinson