Directors Quotes · Page 78

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie.

— Hans Zimmer

And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get…

— Duncan Jones

A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I believe I am a better director than actor. I enjoy acting if the part is right. Directing comes very naturally to…

— Jack White

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

— Rebel Wilson

"You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was…

— James Patterson

I've been writing so much. And what happens with TV is that they split [Taboo] into two blocks, so you get a…

— Steven Knight

I find that a lot of directors are attracted to the dark side.

— Kathleen Kennedy

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg…

— Marg Helgenberger

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

— Douglas Booth

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled…

— Jon Stewart

I'm not as eager to go just work to work. I have another life outside of it, and if I'm pretty sure…

— Scott Speedman

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

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big…

— Martin Compston

I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry]…

— Norman Lear

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a…

— Dermot Mulroney

I don't like the sort of hierarchical, totalitarian type of room a lot of directors can find themselves in.

— Adam Rapp

When I decided I wanted to be an actor, I said I wanted to work with quality actors and directors.

— Anonymous

If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd…

— Carter Burwell

In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

— Andrew Lau

There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the…

— Jonny Greenwood

I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre…

— Stephen Daldry

The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.

— Willem Dafoe

Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

— Harold Prince

Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through…

— Werner Herzog

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British…

— Leslie Caron

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

— Roger Michell

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

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 think since I did Monster I really started understanding how hard it is for first time directors. I think there's a…

— Charlize Theron

My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my…

— Philip Glenister

Directors were apprehensive in trying comedy with me.

— Kunal Khemu

Rewriting isn't just about dialogue, it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.…

— Tom Stoppard

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this…

— Seth Shostak

Director Oliver Stone says he's going to make a movie about Vladimir Putin. I can't believe anyone would want to work with…

— Craig Ferguson

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible…

— Joseph Gatt

On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to…

— Laura Prepon

I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always…

— Brian Helgeland