Directors Quotes · Page 53

We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three…

— James Lipton

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for…

— Julia Garner

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived…

— Luke Evans

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a…

— Peter Sarsgaard

I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of…

— Christopher Markus

I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and…

— Catherine Hardwicke

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

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers…

— Carlton Cuse

I'm not only a writer, but have directed and produced, know the difficulties of the line producer, can deal with the studio,…

— John Lee Hancock

I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery…

— Martha Grimes

The FBI director's probably spent a great deal of pressure to go either way - you know, to have said something, to…

— Alberto Gonzales

I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come…

— George Clooney

I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful…

— Garry Hynes

When I see a short schedule, my question to the director is, are you really comfortable with this, or are you doing…

— Guillermo del Toro

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

I cherish each director that I have. I want to be maneuvered out of my comfort zones. I don't have the time…

— Vera Farmiga

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it…

— Charlie Brooker

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

— Lynda Obst

Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.

— Rita Hayworth

I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've…

— Gaby Hoffmann

I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves.…

— Udo Kier

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like…

— Joan Severance

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

— Bill Gurley

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen…

— Roman Coppola

It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were…

— Zachary Quinto

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

— Thornton Wilder

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

— Richard Gere

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part…

— Catherine McCormack

Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it…

— Letty Aronson

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on…

— Peter Brook

Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was…

— J. C. Chandor

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest…

— Luis Gonzalez