Directors Quotes · Page 9

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

— Fatih Ak?n

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

— Dominic Monaghan

I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking…

— Ludivine Sagnier

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a…

— Jean Dujardin

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which…

— David R. Ellis

Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this…

— Jackie Chan

Sometimes what you lose in the time it takes to let an actor do something that you don't like as a director,…

— Seth Rogen

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's…

— Morgan Freeman

There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else."…

— Colin Firth

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school.…

— David Fincher

Back when I was looking for my next step and was researching Gannett, I was interested in who was leading the various…

— Gracia Martore

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here…

— Manny Farber

Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If…

— Lynne Ramsay

Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very…

— Eiji Aonuma

I've wanted to work with [Kairo aka Pulse director] Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but he has not been making horror movies recently.

— Roy Lee

CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes,…

— David Letterman

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized…

— Jensen Ackles

I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good.

— Goldie Hawn

I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you…

— Jude Law

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

— Diane Paulus

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

— Sergio Leone

I've been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and…

— Rinko Kikuchi

Every day is still exciting. I have like a very good system worked out with my editor. Some directors are in there…

— Nicholas Stoller

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

— Richard King