Directors Quotes · Page 72

And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do.…

— Aldous Huxley

Directors have a tendency to use their hands like orchestra conductors. They don't realize that the actor is looking at their faces,…

— Alan J. Pakula

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

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

— Jamie Dornan

I like a director that encourages me to be playful. I don't really like being restricted or controlled by a director.

— Julia Stiles

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a…

— Roland Joffe

I am definitely writing letters to lots of directors in my mind when I'm making a film. I'm chasing Woody Allen and…

— Mike Mills

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

— Audrey Tautou

I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or…

— Viggo Mortensen

I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, ‘Stop Working Out! Don’t go outside!’ He…

— Miles Teller

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control…

— John C. Reilly

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's…

— Agnes Varda

It's not that I don't want to, it's just that there's no money in it. By that I mean the way the…

— John Landis

I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and…

— Paul Bettany

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy…

— Peter Fonda

I had never done a Director's Cut narration on Beaches so I did in time for the release of the DVD. It…

— Garry Marshall

Over the long haul I'd say that most directors I've worked with have been pretty sensitive to the quality of the interpreted…

— Rod Serling

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

— Mike Leigh

Sometimes, the actors are thrilled to have visitors because they're just waiting most of the day. It's the directors that are a…

— Rebecca Eaton

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the…

— Max Greenfield

I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not…

— Nick Cave

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at…

— James Franco

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with…

— Stellan Skarsgard

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

— Shekhar Kapur

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

— Charlie Rose

When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

— Jacques Rivette

I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I'd never really done comedy before 'Community,' so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors,…

— Gillian Jacobs

I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of…

— Topher Grace

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Mark Shurtleff

I love improv. 'Crazy, Stupid, Love,' the script was really great, but the directors were open to letting you try different things.…

— Emma Stone

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that…

— Natalie Portman

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes,…

— David Letterman

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

— Noah Baumbach

I've worked with a lot of female directors over the course of my career: Martha Coolidge, Catherine Hardwicke, Jodie Foster.

— Holly Hunter

I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like…

— Queen Latifah

I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music,…

— Cliff Martinez

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here…

— Manny Farber

My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and…

— Michael K. Williams

[Alejandro González Iñárritu] went from Birdman to this - these are incredible ledges that he's stepping out on in making these films…

— Bun B