Directors Quotes · Page 61

As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the…

— David Slade

As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're…

— William Monahan

[Director Richard Tanne] was inspired by their [Barack and Michelle Obama] flirtation, and their connection. That's not normal with politicians who are…

— Tika Sumpter

My strangest auditioning experience was when I was reading for a TV show, and right when I started the audition, the casting…

— Danny Strong

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping.…

— Ranbir Kapoor

I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.

— Nina Jacobson

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or…

— Mel Brooks

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if…

— Michael Haneke

For me, being a director is about watching, not about telling people what to do. Or maybe it's like being a mirror;…

— Jane Campion

It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that…

— Catherine Hardwicke

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

— Ryan Gosling

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the…

— Max Greenfield

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

— Christine Vachon

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

When critics or people judge, I think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious…

— Brett Ratner

Many French directors, having now realised there was no more real criticism, that the standards of the past have gone, are very…

— Wim Wenders

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

— David Ogilvy

It's very frustrating [ to work under director's control], not just because you're getting rejected constantly, but also because you're at a…

— Matt Damon

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check…

— Lynn Shelton

A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

— Kenneth Turan

I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an…

— William H. Macy

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

— Alan Alda

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

I've certainly worked with really great directors who haven't acted.

— Steve Buscemi

Michael [Douglas] was just leaving the TV series The Streets of San Francisco and he said, 'Dad, let me try it.' I…

— Kirk Douglas

I'm not a great fan of green screen. It's not much fun for actors. It's great for directors and technical people and…

— Dominic West

I think the writer's quite low down in the hierarchy really. But the fact that they took the piss out of Nicholas…

— Alan Bennett

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

— John Carradine

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just…

— Jason Reitman

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You…

— Spike Lee

Some directors are comfortable with music. Some feel comfortable discussing and talking and operating in a musical language. Others don't engage so…

— Henry Jackman

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have…

— Norman Mailer

I think a lot of directors, they come out of film school, they don't know anything about acting. Or they're writers that…

— Matt Dillon

There are a small list of directors and writers I would work with.

— Brenda Fricker

The director of the FBI...said we can't know for certain who these people are coming from Syria.

— Mike Pence

I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the…

— Dustin Hoffman

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, `The way I look at it,…

— David Letterman

If I feel the part is right, and I know that the producers and the director want me, I'd go for broke.…

— Anne Archer

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as…

— William Monahan