Directors Quotes · Page 68

In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have…

— Andrea Riseborough

Your crew becomes your family and you trust the director and the other actors on the set, and it's a very safe…

— Aleksa Palladino

The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of…

— Lester Persky

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson…

— Wynton Marsalis

I knew that [director/screenwriter] Catalina Aguilar Mastretta had an amazing take on the female psyche and the modern woman and the modern…

— Karla Souza

Cable TV has become where the best actors, writers and directors have gone to work because they are allowed to do character-driven…

— Kevin Spacey

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the…

— Pauly Shore

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen…

— Argus Hamilton

By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's…

— Jeff Greenfield

I don't think Roger Ebert has ever mentioned a screenplay. He assigns every auctorial move to the director, which makes some sense…

— William Monahan

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer…

— Jason Patric

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

— James Agate

When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many…

— William Jackson

I guess if there's one thing that might surprise people about me, it's that I'm very obedient. I'm kind of like a…

— Michael Shannon

When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll…

— Yvon Chouinard

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

— James Caan

There are two kinds of filmmaking: Hitchcock's (the film is complete in the director's mind) and Coppola's (which thrives on process). For…

— Walter Murch

When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one,…

— Betty Dodson

Final cut is overrated. Only fools keep insisting on always having the final word. The wise swallow their pride in order to…

— Wim Wenders

I enjoy collaborating with all of the directors I have worked with. I love collaborating with creative people on interesting projects.

— Lior Ron

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being…

— Naya Rivera

The techniques of different directors are very different, and people have different ways of expressing ideas in film. I'm happiest when working…

— Howard Shore

I worked for a lot of directors.

— Tony Gilroy

I didn't want a guru or a kung fu master or a spiritual director. I didn't want to become a sorcerer or…

— Daniel Quinn

Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun…

— Mickey Rourke

I'm very jealous of actors that swoop in for 20 days, and then swoop back out. When you're a director, you're on…

— Francesca Gregorini

My philosophy is that to be a director you cannot be subject to anyone, even the head of the studio. I threatened…

— Dorothy Arzner

I was an assistant director for a year, and I realized, 'God, this is a lot of hard work. This is going…

— Emraan Hashmi

I do a film because I like the story and I want to give life to a character - I don't necessarily…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of…

— Bret Easton Ellis

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or…

— Martin Freeman

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

— Scarlett Johansson

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or…

— Carol Burnett

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

— William H. Macy

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good…

— Samuel Morse

When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the…

— Edward Norton

I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

— Georg Solti

John [Cassavetes] had shot a great deal of Shadows and I had to go fulfill my contract in California, so he and…

— Gena Rowlands

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

— Art Buchwald