Directors Quotes · Page 67

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get…

— Stanley Tucci

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love…

— Willem Dafoe

I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever…

— Clark Gregg

As an actor, I had noticed very vividly that very few directors know how to direct actors because they haven't done it.

— Robin Wright

I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to…

— Anne M. Mulcahy

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn

Sharing the same vision for what's on the page is always a good idea. The director's job is to establish what that…

— Thomas Jane

Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to…

— Famke Janssen

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you…

— Andy Serkis

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

— Diane Paulus

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

— Hannes Holm

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.

— Truman Capote

I have the highest respect for stars and auteur directors. But I don't want to work with people who only invite me…

— Sidney Sheinberg

I have acted in more than 100 films so far. And I have worked with almost all top stars and leading directors.

— Karunas

The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's…

— Laurence Sterne

Your actors need to trust you as a director, but normally, I think you just need to have an open communication between…

— James Wan

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board…

— Roger Penske

I have a greed to work with good directors.

— Neha Dhupia

According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and…

— Paul Rudnick

I think having women behind the cameras is exciting - whether it's as a director or a writer or a producer -…

— Mary Elizabeth Ellis

In the past decade, there have been a lot of friends or directors, either gossiping or telling me directly, "What you're doing…

— Jackie Chan

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

— Pauly Shore

The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor,…

— Joseph Weizenbaum

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's…

— Lynn Shelton

I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are…

— Olivia Thirlby

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later…

— Laura Dern

If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance.

— Trevor Nunn

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't…

— Lili Taylor

Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never…

— William H. Macy

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done…

— David Cronenberg

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

— John Hurt

I'm very proud of 'The Words' and all the cast. I think Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman are like new directors, and…

— Nora Arnezeder

President Obama has appointed a new head of the Secret Service. The new Secret Service director was so excited that he jumped…

— Conan O'Brien

I am not comfortable kissing or exposing, and I believe in laying open my cards well in advance so that no one…

— Sonakshi Sinha

I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean…

— Charlize Theron

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's…

— Jason Reitman

For my entire career, I wanted to be a director. When I was in the theater, it was very difficult to get…

— James Cromwell

Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her…

— Mabel Cheung

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting…

— Julie Delpy