Directors Quotes · Page 63

You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows…

— Ernest Lehman

I would like you to consider the difference in the time from 1963 to date. The FBI, at that time, was headed…

— John Sherman Cooper

You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well,…

— Joseph Kosinski

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know…

— Marion Cotillard

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

— Daniel Handler

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

— Jim McKay

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he…

— Alfred Hitchcock

With my personal work I prefer not to work from storyboards because being a director, producer and animator in one person I…

— Signe Baumane

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed…

— Brittany Murphy

I guess you could say I'm like a film director but my movies have only one frame.

— Jeff Wall

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

— Diego Luna

Sometimes I go to the cinema and I see a movie where the directors or the filmmakers are telling me what to…

— Pablo Larrain

I think the dictator director is based upon stories from the past. I don't think anyone would put up with it now.…

— Colin Firth

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

— Joss Whedon

TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors,…

— Howard Gordon

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

— Ken Loach

That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life…

— Deborah Kara Unger

If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and…

— Sissy Spacek

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the…

— John Patrick Shanley

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my…

— Ben Kingsley

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of…

— Anonymous

The inter-relationships between people have always fascinated me, as a director. And particularly those who are battlers in life, those who are…

— George Ogilvie

Tony Scott was one of the best directors I've ever worked with, and I was devastated when I heard about his death.…

— Christian Slater

You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this…

— Sarah Gadon

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the…

— Noah Baumbach

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

— Tom Hooper

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and…

— Richard Farnsworth

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.

— Holly Hunter

My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about…

— Honor Harger

When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you…

— Jeph Loeb

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I think we all have limitations, as directors. I don't care what the budget is, it's probably never enough money and never…

— Francesca Gregorini

Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of…

— Tom Jones

The first film is everything you want to say and how you want to say it. Lots of directors will do that…

— John Hurt

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

— Cillian Murphy

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

— Cate Blanchett

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they…

— Anthony Hopkins

Some directors are like it's their... nothing can change, nothing can move. I like collaborating, even when an extra has an idea,…

— Louis Leterrier

All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films,…

— Sandra Oh

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an…

— Cassie Ventura