Directors Quotes · Page 8

The best director is the one you don't see.

— Billy Wilder

You learn from all directors, all these guys.

— Ryan Gosling

I've worked with directors I've believed in.

— Bhumika Chawla

In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

— Andrew Lau

I think every director has a different methodology.

— Cillian Murphy

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

— Skeet Ulrich

I like working with new and young directors.

— Kaya Scodelario

No two directors make the same film the same way.

— Rob Cohen

When you're a director you always feel weird with another director watching over your shoulder.

— Fede Alvarez

When you're on stage with an audience, the director's nowhere to be seen. He's onto the next job.

— Ian Mckellen

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

— Andrea Arnold

Both Peter Chan and Wong Kar Wai are directors that I respect very much.

— Zhao Wei

I don't need a director who's 'good with actors.'...A master manipulator is heaven.

— Frances McDormand

I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.

— Chaske Spencer

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.

— Peter Diamandis

I've slept with a few directors but still didn't get the part. Isn't that strange?

— Naomi Watts

I've been in this business a long time, and I've worked with a lot of different directors now. It's cool to get…

— Michael Rooker

However good a communicator a director is, unless they've been actors, it's just not the same as the shorthand you get with…

— Colin Firth

I've worked with directors who have done it too much, particularly in television, you know, 'okay we got it, let's move on,…

— Tony Todd

Ang Lee’s been nominated for Best Director for Life of Pi, which is what I’m going to call the six weeks after…

— Amy Poehler

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having…

— Daniel Radcliffe

But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to…

— Robert Duvall

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create…

— Brendon Urie

In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in…

— Elvis Mitchell

I mean, I understand that Scrubs was my big break, but sooner or later you have to move on. I've already directed…

— Zach Braff

I am not comfortable kissing or exposing, and I believe in laying open my cards well in advance so that no one…

— Sonakshi Sinha

I was introducing [director and producer] Hal Roach - Mr. Roach was 100 years old, he was one of the fathers of…

— Billy Crystal

Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set…

— Andre Bazin

There are some directors I should have worked with. I'd like to have worked with Robert Altman - I turned him down…

— Val Kilmer

There's music in my films but you seldom hear it. Very early I got the idea that the important things in films…

— Frank Capra

My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major…

— Owen Wilson

Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct…

— Keri Russell

I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and…

— Jon Bernthal

We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw…

— Al Pacino

I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge.…

— Zachary Quinto

The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there…

— Patrick Heusinger

My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was…

— Meera Menon

There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the…

— Pauline Kael

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an…

— Brendan Fraser

There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use…

— E.J. Bonilla