Directors Quotes · Page 55

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of…

— George Cukor

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here?…

— Christopher Walken

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

It's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them…

— Elle Fanning

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the…

— Robert Morse

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Therefore, when you see the end result, it's difficult to see who's the director, me or them. Ultimately, everything belongs to the…

— Abbas Kiarostami

I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject…

— Rob Lowe

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests…

— Joel Bakan

Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous…

— Zhang Ziyi

I've done documentaries and TV for six years but this was my first feature as director, so there were moments when I'd…

— Robert B. Weide

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how…

— Catherine McCormack

Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the…

— Viola Davis

I feel totally lucky and happy. I think a lot of young directors feel this way but you sort of, like, have…

— Max Winkler

You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of…

— Abhishek Bachchan

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother…

— Jodie Foster

When I was leader of the GLC, by the time I had been in control for three years, the difference in pay…

— Ken Livingstone

I feel terrible for directors of TV because all the episodes have to look the same. They make a great series for…

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

There are so many great directors and actors, like Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Rakeysh Ompraskash Mehra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Basu - the…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a…

— Jean Dujardin

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence…

— Andrew Sarris

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

— Damian Loeb

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an…

— Jude Law

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are…

— Dane Cook

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work…

— Catherine Keener

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

— Steve Carell

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

— Denzel Washington

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about…

— Sanaa Lathan

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the…

— John Dykstra

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director…

— Monica Raymund

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how…

— Joe Wright

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but…

— Joel Kinnaman

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

— Linda Blair

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set…

— Alan Parker

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way…

— Peter Mullan

In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an…

— John Gofman

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You…

— Mark Wahlberg

I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker…

— Michael Weatherly

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

— Neil Gaiman