Directors Quotes · Page 62

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the…

— Catherine Deneuve

I definitely divide my life into decades. Almost every ten years, something in my work life has changed. My twenties were my…

— Nora Ephron

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

— John Frankenheimer

Directors always used to be like the police to me - the enemy, the people to tell me what to do when…

— Helen Mirren

I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'

— Harold Lederman

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in…

— James Earl Jones

If I'm going to do a big film, I'm very choosy about what I do, because I think I want to continue…

— James Duval

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

— Roger Ebert

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Mike [Mitchell] brought me on as co-director, and eventually we ended up sharing a brain. It was overwhelming initially when I was…

— Walt Dohrn

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

— John Waters

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create…

— Paul Greengrass

One of the first decisions I made, as the director of "Hide and Seek," was that our film would be silent and…

— Garth Kravits

I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone…

— Hilary Swank

I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

Oftentimes when I'm deciding to do a movie, the main thing is really, that I look at, is the director. I've come…

— Matt Damon

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

— Billy Crystal

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

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of…

— Andy Garcia

The director of the [Grimm] pilot called me in. I had worked on a pilot called Love Bites with him, and the…

— David Giuntoli

After you do a showcase for agency managers and casting directors and you get this folder and some people had a folder…

— Gillian Jacobs

We definitely have to support other female directors because there's not enough of us.

— Gia Coppola

Tarantino is the coolest damn guy; he's just so much fun to work with. He might be the best director I've ever…

— David Carradine

I loved making 'The Hunger Games' - it was the happiest experience of my professional life. Lionsgate was supportive of me in…

— Gary Ross

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a…

— Nina Dobrev

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

— Marjane Satrapi

I've never acted before in a movie I've directed. This felt like the time to do it just because the " Leaves…

— Edward Norton

I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing,…

— Amy Seimetz

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

Plan B is really a little garage band of three people, and our mandate has been to help get difficult material, that…

— Brad Pitt

My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director…

— Erykah Badu

That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

— Nicholas Hoult

That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want…

— Bethann Hardison

When you meet a director who wants to remake a movie, you have to ask, does he or she have an interesting…

— Alexander Skarsgard

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

— Joan Littlewood

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire…

— Paul Auster

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own…

— Jim Jefferies

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

— David Duchovny

I'm always looking for a way to surprise audiences. That's, I feel, my job as a director. I felt that Amy Adams…

— David O. Russell