Directors Quotes · Page 56

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but…

— Russell Crowe

You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really…

— Shekhar Kapur

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

— Carroll O'Connor

I'd love to direct a film, but I don't think I have the temperament for it. I'm very hyper, and I want…

— Shilpa Shetty

I've worked with directors I've believed in.

— Bhumika Chawla

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you…

— Francis Ford Coppola

When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But…

— Dennis Haysbert

I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had…

— Stephan James

I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home…

— Jordi Molla

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

— Ida Lupino

I do believe in us as actors and directors and writers and producers and also as movie-goers. We have much more power…

— Zoe Saldana

Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up…

— George Clooney

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

— Steven Bochco

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can…

— Fred Melamed

I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am…

— Larry Charles

In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films:…

— David Heyman

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're…

— Spike Jonze

Unless you're a directing producer of a television show, for the most part, the director comes in one week to direct and…

— Eric Balfour

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by…

— Steven Spielberg

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving…

— Julia Stiles

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?'…

— Jason Reitman

As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how…

— Paul Feig

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit…

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

— Denzel Washington

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's…

— Aaron Eckhart

The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past…

— Jerry Bruckheimer

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their…

— Michael Apted

My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and…

— Zoe Bell

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

— Marc Jacobs

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director…

— Alexis Denisof

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors.

— Richard Gere

The one thing about program television that's absolutely incompatible with any concept of art is that all decisions have to be made…

— Alexander Kluge

Sometimes the personality or just the particular process of a director can really affect your quality of life as a composer in…

— Christophe Beck

When I was shooting with Tarantino and Mike Mills and amazing directors, it made me think that I would never be a…

— Melanie Laurent

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

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

— Debbie Allen

When I read it and I realized that Michael Landon, Jr. was the director of it, I thought...this could work out well.…

— Drew Waters

Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial…

— Tinsel Korey

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an…

— Douglas Sirk

The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending…

— Jason Reitman