Directors Quotes · Page 68

I've been in so many bad movies and worked with so many bad directors that I go into a film expecting nothing.

— Cliff Robertson

If you were in the film industry at that time, you were always picked up by directors who were much older. You…

— Diane Cilento

I spent most of my time as an actor in television, so directors in television - it's such a machine that's already…

— Taylor Sheridan

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

— Ruba Nadda

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world.…

— Jane Campion

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look,…

— Leon Panetta

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers…

— John Carpenter

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a…

— Guy Garvey

Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something's going in an unexpected direction and see it as…

— Susan Sarandon

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

— Richard Sherman

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind…

— Daniel Keyes

While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA,…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at…

— Pauley Perrette

You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're…

— Mike Birbiglia

I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and…

— Gaspard Ulliel

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that…

— Peter Jackson

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids…

— Steven Spielberg

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap…

— Neeraj Kabi

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable.…

— Tippi Hedren

It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you…

— Gregory Nicotero

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to…

— Martin Donovan

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works…

— Anonymous

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a…

— Paul Newman

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when…

— Robert Osborne

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors,…

— Terry Gilliam

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who…

— Charlie Kaufman

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular…

— Clark Gregg

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

— Janusz Kaminski

I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which…

— Paul Reubens

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year…

— Jim Dale

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

— Julianne Moore

The thing I love about working with first-time directors is that it's always quite shocking how little difference there is between them…

— Eric Bana

Earlier, actors had a lot of power in their hands. And now, it has gone in the hands of the directors and…

— Bhumi Pednekar

Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or…

— Gary Ross

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your…

— John Ratzenberger

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because…

— Berenice Bejo

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the…

— Catherine Deneuve

Asked by reporters about his upcoming marriage to a forty-two-year-old woman, director Roman Polanski told reporters, 'The way I look at it,…

— David Letterman

You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes…

— Kevin Spacey