Directors Quotes · Page 69

I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on…

— Queen Latifah

My wishlist of directors, who I want to work with is endless. I want to work with Vishal Bhardwaj, Dibakar Banerjee, Karan…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

— Bella Thorne

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

— Carter Burwell

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors…

— Donald Pleasence

It's pretty damning. That's Hillary Clinton juxtaposed against the FBI Director Comey yesterday, clearly illustrating she lied.

— Rush Limbaugh

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye…

— Robert Bresson

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a…

— Michael Patrick Jann

I used to work for an NGO called Transitions Online, and I was their Director of New Media. I was a very…

— Evgeny Morozov

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I…

— Matt Damon

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests…

— Naomi Watts

Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If…

— Ben Hecht

I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them…

— Morgan Freeman

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence…

— Tim Robbins

The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a…

— Alison Pill

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their…

— Patricia Highsmith

Cate Blanchett is somebody who's transformed herself in so many different ways and worked with so many amazing actors and directors. If…

— Joe Keery

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want…

— Julian Jarrold

There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for…

— Ben Kingsley

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director…

— Alexis Denisof

Television can become a bit of a treadmill for directors. You come in, nobody knows you, the actors are already doing what…

— Michael J. Bassett

TV directors just aren't sexy for some reason, Although, you know, Rob and Kim [Manners] are very sexy in my eyes.

— David Duchovny

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not…

— Lukas Moodysson

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium…

— Oliver Platt

I made the transition to directing documentaries with the great help of my Co-Director on The World According to Sesame Street, Linda…

— Linda Goldstein Knowlton

Of course I am a child of European culture. There are a number of great directors from which I learned, but there…

— Michael Haneke

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you…

— Greta Scacchi

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is…

— Rupert Friend

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't…

— Aaron Brookner

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line,…

— Pedro Almodovar

Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

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

— Karunas

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at…

— Griffin Dunne

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in…

— Karl Polanyi

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check…

— Lynn Shelton

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you…

— Nicholas Meyer

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an…

— Cassie Ventura

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be…

— Orson Welles