Directors Quotes · Page 70

I am not funny. The writers were funny. My directors were funny. The situations were funny… What I am is brave. I…

— Lucille Ball

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.

— Ewan McGregor

I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

— William Monahan

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

Being the director is really something. It's a statement of something and you have to stand up for that. Okay, this is…

— Mathieu Demy

I was going to say we saw Secretary [Hillary] Clinton reported that she believes that she would've won the election but for…

— George Stephanopoulos

I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy…

— Barack Obama

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery…

— Martha Grimes

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision.…

— Lenny Kravitz

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

— Diane Paulus

All I wanted to do was be a professional film director with a body of work, and you're going to make some…

— Michael Caton-Jones

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and…

— Jimmy Fallon

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.

— Alexander Mackendrick

[ Oval House] director, Peter Oliver, gave you the right to fail. He had a philosophy that came from Winston Churchill that…

— John Ratzenberger

It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything.

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10…

— Taylor Lautner

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating…

— Mark Webber

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

— Diane Paulus

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar…

— Zachary Quinto

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

— Shekhar Kapur

I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my…

— David O. Russell

By the way, I'm not sure the managing director who was 50 in 2005 understood that the job had changed - that…

— Ken Moelis

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

— Michael Bay

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

— Bryan Cranston

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're…

— Janeane Garofalo

Going forward, I would love to work with directors like Rian Johnson and Joss Whedon; people like that who are doing big…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible.…

— Brigitte Bardot

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way…

— Al Pacino

I want to have a great director, and also a great producer and co-stars. And there should be a tight script. After…

— Kajol

Talent has no gender. People are hiring young male directors right out of film school, off of a student film or off…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

You often hear this about directors, how it's like having the best set of toys. This fabulous train set, the biggest box…

— William Sadler

Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an…

— Robert De Niro

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

— Pauley Perrette

At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don't come into it. They…

— Bill Shankly

I got into a brawl one night in a saloon in Greenwich Village. Elia Kazan, a great director, saw me put out…

— Burl Ives

I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

— Stacey Snider

When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.

— Louis C. K

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to…

— Carl Icahn

I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to…

— Ashton Kutcher

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks…

— Rob Lowe