Directors Quotes · Page 80

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

— Kevin Munroe

Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.

— Elliot Morley

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

There's something special about working with picture and adding music to picture that really takes you to a whole new level. It's…

— Lior Ron

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

— Terry Gilliam

When you start a new project and they say, "Your director is going to be Joe Blo," you're hoping that Joe Blo…

— Martin Short

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know…

— Amy Ryan

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be…

— Helena Bonham Carter

A lot of times the character's experience is not in accordance with the tone of the movie and it's not really my…

— Jesse Eisenberg

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

— Peter Mayhew

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I…

— Fede Alvarez

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

— Lena Waithe

I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?

— Zach Braff

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined…

— Naomi Watts

The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also…

— Bun B

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind…

— Daniel Keyes

I actually had some funny dialogue [ in Stardust Memories], a little piece, and we shot all day in this big ballroom.…

— Brent Spiner

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can…

— Dino De Laurentiis

The acting director of the Secret Service, Joseph Clancy, said they may make the fence around the White House taller because of…

— Jimmy Fallon

When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked…

— David Sharp

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything…

— Shuler Hensley

There are so many ways to help, by either sharing your skills or expertise, joining our board of directors or advisory boards,…

— Ian Somerhalder

Many Mexican directors are scared to shoot in Mexico City, which is why there are many stories in Mexican cinema about little…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

— Nina Jacobson

Ingmar Bergman is a long way from me, but I admire him. He, too, concentrates a great deal on individuals; and although…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.

— Joshua Marston

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because…

— Ron Howard

I'd seen Elijah [Wood], when I was a little boy, in The Good Son. And then, I was a huge fan of…

— Samuel Barnett

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

— Dakin Matthews

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do…

— Stephen Root

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does,…

— Kit Harington

I am the best film director in the world.

— Lars von Trier

Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the…

— D. W. Griffith

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

My film school is making movies. But, I do think that being an actor has served me immensely, as both a writer…

— Josh Radnor

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If…

— Michel Legrand

Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best…

— Jean Smart

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

Stanley Kubrick was very selective when he went into a close-up. Every director has his taste in a performance, but Stanley would…

— Tom Cruise