Directors Quotes · Page 7

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

— Brion James

I like to just work with great directors.

— Matt Bomer

Directors assume I'm, like, establishment.

— Rebecca Hall

Adrian Lyne is such an incredible director.

— Chad Lowe

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

— Chase Jarvis

Female directors are slightly less vociferous.

— Rahul Dev

I don't really need a lot of help from a director.

— Christina Ricci

In France, I am so free. I have more freedom than most American directors could dare to even imagine.

— Jean-Pierre Jeunet

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts.

— Dennis Haysbert

I don't mind any role as long as I get to work with good directors.

— Riya Sen

Most actors are pretty adaptable because we work with so many directors.

— Kyle MacLachlan

Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.

— Philip Kaufman

I just want to work with good directors and good people.

— Charlie Hunnam

Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.

— Dermot Mulroney

I've learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economical director.

— Angelina Jolie

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but…

— Alfonso Cuaron

I always feel like the less you say when you're making a movie, as a director, is the best. That means everything's…

— Ti West

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually…

— Brian De Palma

For me, the most satisfying time to work with people, and time when it really works, is when you work with directors…

— Jonny Lee Miller

I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.

— Jackie Chan

I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to…

— Willem Dafoe

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him,…

— Matthew McGrory

My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching…

— David Duchovny

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production,…

— Alice Englert

To go into more specifics regarding actors, whether they're from Korea or the U.S., all actors know if they are loved by…

— Kim Jee-woon

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 always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not…

— Alex Ferguson

I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross. We played…

— Jean Simmons

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

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to…

— Michael Bay

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one…

— Woody Harrelson

Well, I think that's been my career. I always choose stuff that's the same, yet different. These projects just happened. I didn't…

— Michael Rooker

3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing…

— Steven Spielberg

In Hollywood, story content of movies follows a hierarchy of power, not the relative quality of various ideas. Hollywood does not lack…

— Terry Rossio

I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and…

— Tom Hanks

For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the…

— Ai Weiwei

Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with…

— Sarah Vowell

Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If…

— Lynne Ramsay

American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened…

— Harrison Ford