Directors Quotes · Page 84

Most of the films I myself like don't do very well. Every director, he has a choice, whether to go for subtlety…

— Sylvester Stallone

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on…

— Anonymous

I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave…

— Edward Snowden

It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But…

— Jim Gaffigan

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a…

— Jonah Hill

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

— Anonymous

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions…

— Liv Ullmann

The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

— Lynda Obst

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story.…

— Mark Strickson

We make a contract within ourselves as actors or directors or writers about how much of ourselves we let into projects. You…

— Ajay Naidu

This film [ Blue is the Warmest Color] actually is the result of me talking with my producer Vincent [Maraval]. I gave…

— Abdellatif Kechiche

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you…

— Nicholas Meyer

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

— Gene Wilder

I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight…

— Alan Cumming

I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He…

— Andre Holland

Most of the films are only 60% taken, rest is a director's input.

— Akshay Kumar

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors…

— Amanda Peet

I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be…

— Daniel Handler

I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also…

— Christina Ricci

I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a…

— Abdellatif Kechiche

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of…

— John Turturro

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was…

— J. C. Chandor

If you're not filled back up quickly, you might collapse like a birthday balloon". I guess that's why acting is so addictive.…

— Matthew Jacobs

When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as…

— C. Vivian Stringer

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

— ASAP Rocky

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

— Katia Winter

I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do…

— Bailey Chase

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers -…

— Yo-Yo Ma

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

— Robert Pattinson

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.

— Kristen Stewart

But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn…

— Juno Temple

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.'…

— Ryan Reynolds

The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors,…

— Felicity Jones

Female directors are slightly less vociferous.

— Rahul Dev

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've always worked with new directors. 'Pyar Koi Khel Nahin' with Sunny Deol, Anupam Kher's debut film 'Om Jai Jagdish,' and Niraj…

— Mahima Chaudhry

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Getting back in the directors chair - there's a sense of like doing something every year. It's not like riding a bike,…

— Cary Fukunaga

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing…

— Kenneth Lonergan