Directors Quotes · Page 53

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So…

— Anne Fontaine

There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for…

— Ben Kingsley

It was great having them around and I have to say pretty weird seeing them all grown up! Plus we have Jeremy…

— Joel McHale

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

— Viola Davis

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

— George Clooney

The capitalist workplace is one of the most profoundly undemocratic institutions on the face of the Earth. Workers have no say over…

— Richard D. Wolff

Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because…

— Jack Jason

As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good…

— Karine Vanasse

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 just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who…

— Jackie Cooper

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of…

— Robert Wise

Two-thirds of the directors at the New York Fed are hand-picked by the same bankers that the Fed is in charge of…

— Bernie Sanders

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

— Michael Caine

Well, I wasnt just kind of standing in a queue at McDonalds and someone sat down and said, Youre the director of…

— Rupert Sanders

I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that…

— Josh Peck

I have done films where we all thought the director didn't know what he was doing and it is going to be…

— Kevin Spacey

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

— Philip Kaufman

Three directors whose work directly influences mine are Paul Thomas Anderson, Darren Aronofsky and Susanne Bier (her Danish films). You'll notice that…

— Chika Anadu

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even…

— Mark Duplass

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or…

— Isabella Rossellini

We, as women, often believe that we have to endear ourselves by acting modestly. But that leads personnel directors to think: Anyone…

— Kristina Schroder

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

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

— Kristin Davis

I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want…

— Valeria Golino

A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will…

— Richard Ayoade