Directors Quotes · Page 58

Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.

— Andy Warhol

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

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

— Sally Kellerman

Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If…

— Armie Hammer

It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.

— Omar Epps

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working…

— Max Beesley

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a…

— Kelly Gallagher

I had been at the director's workshop for women at the AFI, which at the time was a great thing to do.…

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

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

— Max Winkler

Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the…

— Ted Naifeh

I have no reason as a director to have films go up in versions that I don't like. My only experience of…

— William Monahan

The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have…

— Uwe Boll

I would not like to direct, I would be one of those terrible directors who can't help line reading the actors their…

— Ruby Bentall

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

— Steve Carell

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

— Diane Kruger

Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to…

— Ice Cube

It doesn't matter where you make movies or what the size of the movie you make is. It's a very hard job…

— Ryuhei Kitamura

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I…

— Elisabeth Shue

The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been…

— Sarah Ruhl

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

— David Mamet

At the end of the two years that I was the director [of the Center for Reproductive and Sexual Health in Manhattan],…

— Bernard Nathanson

I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no…

— Olivia Wilde

Some of the top directors have launched their career with me. That's the high.

— Anu Malik

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to…

— Jon Lovitz

We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record…

— Edward Snowden

I am a very impatient director.

— Steven Spielberg

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it…

— Ingmar Bergman

You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend…

— Denzel Washington

I always used to associate good directors as being ones who are totally extreme and have an answer for everything and there…

— Chris Lowell

Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't…

— Ed Sheeran

Our top story, in 'Threat Matrix Reloaded' news ... Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Muller held a press conference…

— Craig Kilborn

It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do…

— Gemma Arterton

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the…

— Dan Jenkins

What a director does... essentially, it's storytelling, but a director also controls the feeling and the sounds and the texture. It's an…

— John Carpenter

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director…

— Soundarya

When I do go to L.A., it is usually for a reason - to meet with a director or something - but…

— Douglas Booth

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast…

— Taylor Hackford

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

— John Frankenheimer

Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting…

— Joe Queenan

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

— Kristen Stewart