Directors Quotes · Page 65

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into…

— Cate Blanchett

I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just…

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I have such amazing memories [about The Hotel New Hampshire movie], because Tony Richardson was such an amazing director, and the subject…

— Rob Lowe

I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I…

— Meryl Streep

What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that…

— Aaron Sorkin

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million…

— Michael Pitt

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

— Julia Stiles

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes…

— Penelope Spheeris

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture,…

— Stephanie Zacharek

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys…

— Isla Fisher

I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not…

— Tobias Lindholm

The artistry on the show [ Underground] is apparent in each episode. From the riveting writing to the purposeful and precise direction,…

— Aisha Hinds

Congratulation s to my friends and all the team of famous the Dance of the Vampires! As the Chagal of the German…

— Jerzy Jeszke

When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them…

— Donald Sutherland

I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way…

— Emma Donoghue

I think directors should at least take acting lessons to see what's going on. And I think all actors should direct to…

— Penny Marshall

The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I…

— Richard Sherman

What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types…

— Kasi Lemmons

I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't…

— Adam Rapp

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a…

— Dennis Hopper

The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have…

— Luka Magnotta

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like…

— Tom Hardy

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

— Adam Rapp

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.

— Richard Wagner

Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.

— Jodie Foster

Producers generally don't like me; directors do, generally. Convincing the producers is hard. They can't see the commercial value behind such a…

— Amanda Plummer

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I…

— Alan Rickman

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

— Jack Welch

I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in…

— Christian Bale

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

— Roger Ross Williams

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of…

— George Lucas

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to…

— Robert Duvall

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and…

— Jean Dujardin

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of…

— Jimmy Cannon

When I'm in the studio, I write the music, I play the different instruments, I produce it, I arrange it, and it's…

— Lenny Kravitz

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is…

— Griffin Dunne

I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So…

— Judd Apatow

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or…

— Francois Truffaut