Directors Quotes · Page 75

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words…

— Shane Dawson

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but…

— Harold Ramis

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from…

— George Clooney

It's hard on an actor when you have to do a scene 45 times and you know damn well that three of…

— William H. Macy

I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.

— Dan Stevens

There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point…

— Jerusha Hess

I generally don't involve myself in giving the actors some tips on acting. At the same time, I don't do that with…

— Nicholas Sparks

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the…

— Salma Hayek

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and…

— Jeff Daniels

I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So…

— Judd Apatow

It's entirely to do with personality, I think. There are good directors who talk a lot, bad directors who talk a lot,…

— Colin Firth

I ain't the first on the list that people are sending scripts to. I'm very lucky. I've managed to put myself in…

— Christian Bale

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a…

— Grant Heslov

A director's job is to make something happen and it doesn't happen by itself. So you wheedle, you cajole, you flatter people,…

— James Cameron

I'm just happy when directors make a movie that is really sentimental but without being maudlin or saccharine or too much like…

— Paul Schneider

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

— Michael Sheen

All directors should have to act and all actors should have to direct, so that they can understand all these key things…

— Tom Hanks

Every time I feel that I really hit critical mass and I'm in the right place is when I feel like the…

— Robert Downey, Jr

If anyone has the opportunity to connect the dots and look at the directors I've worked with, from TV to film, there…

— Regina King

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

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know…

— Marion Cotillard

An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return.

— Sidney Poitier

I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

— Alia Shawkat

On the set for 'Beetlejuice,' it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera.

— Winona Ryder

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never…

— Edward Burns

In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the…

— Max Bemis

I trust my directors to see me through, for I don't consider myself as a natural actor - or a good one…

— Fahadh Faasil

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

— Judd Nelson

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to…

— Jon Lovitz

At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at,…

— Danny Huston

[Fifty Shades Darker director] James Foley directed Fear. And that's what I love about this film, because it has a real sexy…

— Bella Heathcote

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I…

— Alan Thicke

When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

— Adam F. Goldberg

Developing films with directors, developing films with actors, is a poor percentage play for a screenwriter.

— Tony Gilroy

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal…

— Sylvester Stallone

Women are making strides in many areas and women have mentored and supported me along the way. I think that women are…

— Nina Jacobson

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women…

— Helen Mirren

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting…

— Ben Affleck

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor