Directors Quotes · Page 77

I feel like a lot of the young actors that are just coming up are really good. I think directors are directing…

— William H. Macy

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think…

— Sofia Coppola

Directors have been trying to get me to do comedy for a long time, ever since One Eight Seven.

— Clifton Collins, Jr

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

— David Wenham

Now the Japanese companies are more focused on that. To have two independent directors - I think it's good to have outside…

— Jamie Dimon

The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time.…

— Barry Nelson

Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in…

— John Frankenheimer

When your set is led by a great guy and visionary like Director Tim Miler and a true superstar talent like Reynolds…

— Kyle Cassie

I thought I'd become a funeral director when I wasn't going to be an actor. I thought I would be good at…

— Angelina Jolie

One of the things we learn in movies directed by men is what the 'fantasy woman' is. What we learn in movies…

— Jane Campion

Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a…

— Van Jones

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's…

— Dustin Hoffman

Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of…

— Anthony Hopkins

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what?…

— Lloyd Kaufman

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to…

— David Oyelowo

I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me…

— Neal H. Moritz

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

— Eli Roth

I love British female directors lately.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I'm one of the most successful adult movie directors in the business.

— Stormy Daniels

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

— John Frankenheimer

Actors are like kids, they need to play a little bit. And that's the nature of their job, they need to shake…

— David Ayer

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

— Jackie Chan

Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She…

— Jeff Britting

I'm really open to anything that's good. If I read something and it's good, and I like the director, it never really…

— Kevin Durand

Whatever I was able to do with those experiences certainly contribute to whatever I'm able to do as a director. The corruption…

— Sean Penn

I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors,…

— Emmanuelle Beart

At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to…

— Peter Dale Scott

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over,…

— R. Lee Ermey

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

— Tom Clancy

I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very much like a teacher,…

— Viggo Mortensen

I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct…

— Ashton Kutcher

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied…

— Steven Spielberg

I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

— Taylor Schilling

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that…

— Joe Mantello

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if…

— Cole Porter

What I do as a director is really create a safe environment that everyone can feel very comfortable in and experiment within…

— Paul Feig

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

— Elizabeth Taylor

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

— Adam Driver

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

— Kevin McDonald

What I'm always afraid of is going "off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very…

— Lauren Shuler Donner