Directors Quotes · Page 50

Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed…

— Anonymous

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of…

— Jodie Foster

Lyrical lecture, word architecture, Rap director, the best in my sector. Microphone cool chief, releasin the smooth speech... I get nasty with…

— Lord Finesse

There is a host of directors - Sujoy Ghosh, Neeraj Pandey, Ashutosh Gowariker, Madhur Bhandarkar, Mani Ratnam and so on - who…

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

In terms of directing, there's a number of directors who definitely had a great impact on me, Woody Allen certainly being one…

— Ryan Eggold

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

— Spike Lee

I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical…

— Kelli O'Hara

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees…

— Douglas Booth

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film…

— Rebecca Hall

As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because…

— Jim Jarmusch

The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in…

— Erro

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is…

— Griffin Dunne

When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as…

— C. Vivian Stringer

It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that…

— Catherine Hardwicke

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue…

— Michael Arndt

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not…

— Mary Parker Follett

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

— Steven Price

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and…

— Renee O'Connor

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the…

— Shiri Appleby

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

— Tom Hooper

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call…

— Zubin Mehta

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

— Jelly Roll Morton

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through…

— Steven Spielberg

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over,…

— R. Lee Ermey

I've always really respected directors. As much as I was interested in acting, whenever I watched a film, it was always the…

— Paul Wesley

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.

— Sonia Braga

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors…

— Kirsten Dunst

I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to…

— Zachary Quinto

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast…

— Taylor Hackford

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I…

— Francesco Carrozzini

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

— Joshua Michael Stern

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

— Devon Bostick

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

— Daniel Radcliffe

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

— Sidney Blumenthal

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

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

— Steven Spielberg

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of…

— Matt Damon

I take it very seriously, music. I think it's one of the tools that a director has with which to kind of…

— Todd Phillips

I just want character-actor-driven stories and directors that are actors' directors, which is what everyone says.

— Sophie Thatcher