Directors Quotes · Page 64

David Ayer is one of the best directors I've ever worked with. He's a true man's man.

— Scott Eastwood

I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm…

— Daryl Hannah

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

— Mara Wilson

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

— Shahrukh Khan

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or…

— Jonathan Lethem

The directors did an amazing job and Josh Holloway is just he's just shining. I think that, of the people I started…

— Evangeline Lilly

I have worked with some very great directors.

— Ray Walston

I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors.…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I think that what a lot of people tell you, a lot of the job of the director is having an opinion…

— Etan Cohen

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You…

— Mark Wahlberg

Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -…

— James Frain

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of…

— Klaus Kinski

I've had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does…

— Keanu Reeves

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push…

— Ivan Reitman

I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually…

— Alex Raymond

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be…

— Sean Penn

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and…

— Tony Kushner

There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been…

— Meryl Streep

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.…

— Alan Rickman

As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of…

— William Godwin

I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature…

— Mike Duke

Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear.…

— Matt Damon

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

— Mel Smith

3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing…

— Steven Spielberg

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions…

— Bruno Tonioli

I guess I'm not jaded because I still believe that there are good films out there, and there are great directors, and…

— Elijah Wood

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

— Darren Lynn Bousman

“What are they doing, examining last month's costs with a microscope when they should be surveying the horizon with a telescope? [Acerbic…

— Francis Arthur Freeth

Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the…

— John Kapelos

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

The cities of Italy are now deluged with droves of these creatures [tour groups], for they never separate, and you see them,…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks…

— Rob Lowe

Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I…

— Pauly Shore

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

— Paul Scofield

I know you can't see it, not you, Ed, but maybe if I tell you the whole plot you'll understand it this…

— Daniel Handler

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

— Jeff Fahey

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

— Kristen Stewart

I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

— Jerry Weintraub

Any movie's only as good as the director.

— Woody Harrelson

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of…

— Stephen Lang