Directors Quotes · Page 81

One of the things that's awesome about being an actor is that you get to do stories, live lives and have experiences…

— Brit Marling

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

— Jason Reitman

Some directors don't tell you that it's not your fault, so you get increasingly depressed that you're not delivering what's required, and…

— Ian Mckellen

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I…

— Juliette Lewis

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the…

— Sylvia Kristel

I rely on my directors, a lot. I love being directed.

— Vera Farmiga

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

— Jeff Bridges

It's only human and natural that an actor should see the film in terms of his own part, but I, as a…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York.…

— Brent Spiner

Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a…

— Andy Greenwald

I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.

— Adrienne Shelly

As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they…

— Angelina Jolie

There is no point in having sharp images when you've fuzzy ideas.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my…

— Bianca Balti

The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single…

— Matt Damon

That's the greatest sin a director can commit; to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

— Alexis Bledel

When you play a character that is so emotionally closed there are times when you ask yourself if you are doing enough…

— Gary Oldman

I have so much respect for directors. It's a tremendous amount of pressure; you have to keep steadfast and keep what you…

— Robert De Niro

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

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying…

— Lawrence Lessig

As actors, we have the opportunity to work with many directors. Directors only work with themselves and other actors. They never know…

— Tom Hardy

I prefer to have playback, but sometimes, you can't have that under most circumstances. First, it is expensive because you need a…

— James Cromwell

I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge…

— Nate Parker

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

— Tom Hanks

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

— Steve Martin

When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great…

— Wynton Marsalis

I even think the commercial element of new American directors is really fertile right now. There are a lot of filmmakers with…

— Jim Jarmusch

Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.

— Sam Worthington

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've…

— Kristen Stewart

As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I…

— Jodie Foster

I remember Adrian [Maben, director] had lots of problems with red tape and dealing with stuff. I think we lost two or…

— David Gilmour

Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.

— Jeffrey Deitch

Every director is different. And all the movies are very different, and the characters are very different.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual…

— Neill Blomkamp

One of the problems of a director on the set is that we become overwhelmed by all the factors and threads of…

— Whit Stillman

I think all directors should be animators...

— Steven Spielberg

As Claude LeLouche said, his favorite American director is Sergio Leone. Not because I would be American, but because I was dealing…

— Sergio Leone

It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an…

— Rachael MacFarlane

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

— Joaquin Phoenix