Directors Quotes · Page 56

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain…

— Mike Patton

When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like…

— Viola Davis

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider…

— Billy Bob Thornton

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

— Eli Roth

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my…

— Scarlett Johansson

When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like…

— Denzel Washington

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell…

— Anne Fletcher

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

— Jack Welch

The rule of thumb for a director or producer - which prevents them from just sticking their names on everything - is…

— Harold Ramis

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn't just a director. He's potentially a friend,…

— Kevin Hart

There are certain directors where you know you're going to be good or you're not going to be there. There are people…

— Christopher Walken

As an actor, it's always important to understand what the director is after. That, to me, is my job. When I'm acting,…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then…

— Kari Matchett

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they…

— Akira Kurosawa

Different directors have different techniques in the use of films. Cronenberg is very different in the way he works with film, and…

— Howard Shore

My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on…

— Scott Glenn

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

— Anton Yelchin

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director…

— Lukas Haas

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how…

— David Zayas

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or…

— Francois Truffaut

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how…

— Nathan Fillion

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

— John Boorman

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture,…

— Stephanie Zacharek

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

— Steven Bochco

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of…

— Fritz Lang

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological…

— Vsevolod Pudovkin

I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm,…

— Robert B. Weide

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director…

— Ricky Schroder

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so…

— Carrie Preston

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I…

— Fede Alvarez

I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They…

— Vinessa Shaw

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

— Anne Fontaine

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and…

— Jon M. Chu

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to…

— Shailene Woodley

I am lucky that I have worked with some wonderful directors so far - Madhur Bhandarkar and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, among others.

— Divya Dutta

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they…

— John C. Reilly

I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky…

— Garry Marshall

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were…

— Noel Clarke

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

— Charles S. Dutton