Directors Quotes · Page 5

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

— Chad Lowe

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

— Chase Jarvis

I like to just work with great directors.

— Matt Bomer

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

— Brion James

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

— John Carradine

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

— Naomie Harris

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

The best films are because of nobody but the director.

— Roman Polanski

When we don't say 'male director,' then why call them 'female directors?'

— Jaideep Ahlawat

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

— Lake Bell

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

— Yvonne Strahovski

You mustn't look at a film with only one point of view.

— Jafar Panahi

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

— Richard King

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

— Douglas Booth

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be…

— Al Pacino

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get…

— Olivia Wilde

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are…

— Janet Suzman

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have…

— John Schlesinger

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge…

— Nate Parker

You basically go in animation and it's all in the imagination. There aren't even pictures to look at. You usually go in…

— John Noble

When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies…

— Parker Posey

Sometimes I go to the cinema and I see a movie where the directors or the filmmakers are telling me what to…

— Pablo Larrain

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas…

— Alan Bennett

Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the…

— Colin Firth

When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each…

— Gary Busey

Here is something no real celebrity will ever tell you: film acting is not very fun. Doing the same thing over and…

— Mara Wilson

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get…

— Stan Lee

I was constantly reading books about how to direct, and asking directors, 'How do you do it?' And when I finally actually…

— Susanna Fogel

Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and…

— Tony Kushner

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He…

— Mary-Louise Parker

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the…

— Paul Rotha

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the…

— Victor Hugo

My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director…

— Erykah Badu

It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day…

— Dan Mazer

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed…

— Brittany Murphy