Directors Quotes · Page 71

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

— Nicholas Meyer

Big Fish was the first movie that we worked on together, and I had already written it. We had another director, but…

— John August

Truthfully, most directors don't direct actors. Every actor is different, so when you're asked, "How do you approach an actor?," it depends…

— John Landis

I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to…

— Dustin Hoffman

It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur…

— James Coburn

As directors, we get very stuck on the stories we want to tell.

— Anna Boden

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and…

— Amber Heard

Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of…

— Linda Gray

You always like to be the collaborator. I don't want to take over the movie, because if I want to do that,…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

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

I like to adapt to a director's way of working. I love doing that. Each director is so different, and you have…

— Jennifer Lawrence

But I am very confident that David Pleat, the director of football or whatever his title is now days - I am…

— Billy Davies

When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts.

— Eli Roth

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

— Morgan Saylor

“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

It's a lot of power to give the director to edit his own stuff. It's also a time thing: you don't want…

— Joe Dante

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak.…

— John Hurt

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters…

— Laurence Sterne

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and…

— Michael B. Jordan

In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead…

— O. Henry

I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have…

— Mads Mikkelsen

A guy friend I was speaking to said he was talking to a group of male producersand he was just shocked that…

— Rose McGowan

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in…

— Pedro Almodovar

We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses…

— Michael Sheen

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

— Charlton Heston

My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of…

— Garry Marshall

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

— Will Friedle

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors…

— Catherine Keener

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

— Charlie Munger

I generally have confidence in my directors.

— Mohanlal

I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders…

— Shahad Ameen

I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and…

— Daniel Clowes

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other…

— Elle Macpherson

I'll say this, I'm no stranger to working with a foreign cast, foreign directors, that sort of thing. I love it, because…

— Jaimie Alexander

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long…

— Kevin Conroy

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

— Cameron Diaz

I have a great respect for actors like Clint Eastwood, who's a wonderful director. I think two pictures that I directed were…

— Kirk Douglas

IN THE CINEMA A DIRECTOR EXPRESSES HIS INDIVIDUALITY FIRST AND FOREMOST THROUGH HIS SENSE OF TIME, THROUGH RHYTHM. RHYTHM GIVES COLOUR TO…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I probably complained more when I was younger. The movie industry can be frustrating but I think sometimes I could have been…

— Val Kilmer

A film causes me so many worries and such a lot of reactions that I have to love it in order to…

— Ingmar Bergman