Directors Quotes · Page 90

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get…

— Olivia Wilde

I'm just trying to choose interesting, quirky projects or things with interesting directors or just movies that have a lot of people…

— Douglas Booth

The work I'm doing on the screen differs from that of anyone else. My comedy is of a peculiar nature...no writers have…

— W. C. Fields

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable…

— Akira Kurosawa

Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.

— Angelina Jolie

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room -…

— Julia Stiles

I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law.

— Theodore Roosevelt

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

I did this thing for HBO called 'Strip Search' with Sidney Lumet, who was one of the best directors I've ever worked…

— Ken Leung

I always felt more like a girl than a boy, I don't know. Music was very important to me, movies were not…

— Lukas Moodysson

You'll still work with some directors where that doesn't happen, and sometimes it's out of necessity because you're in a really complicated,…

— Paul Bettany

Elephant Man [movie] was much more difficult physically. This had a couple of days. It was quite tricky. I had my leg…

— John Hurt

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the…

— Jason Reitman

Music is just one of the tools a director has with which to paint and I think it's one of the most…

— Todd Phillips

If I were less lazy, when my play was published, I would go and rewrite everything for the reader. But I don't…

— Annie Baker

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

— Howard Shore

Whether you're acting or you're writing, your skin is just basically ripped off and you're putting yourself out there. At least the…

— Tama Janowitz

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

— Patricia Clarkson

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that;…

— Melanie Laurent

I'm very shy. But as a director and especially a female director, absolutely: How I used to walk on the court is…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors…

— Vince Gilligan

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative…

— Amber Benson

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director,…

— Brett Ratner

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am…

— Burton Richter

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a…

— Jacki Weaver

Everyone's a little nervous when you all get together and meet the actors, meet the director. But once you get on set,…

— Kyle Chandler

The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium…

— Oliver Platt

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to…

— Martin Donovan

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have…

— Adrian Lyne

I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't…

— Drew Goddard

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then…

— William H. Macy

I like working with directors because I'm really opinionated about what things work and may not work, what audiences like and may…

— Morgan Freeman

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

The network was fantastic, but you get a lot of anxiety with any production. It was very helpful to have both of…

— Tony Goldwyn

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

I was really fortunate from the time I arrived in Hollywood to work with some of the greatest directors from the beginning.…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

[Doctor Cukrowicz] was basically a role where you have two diva actresses - Maggie Smith and Natasha Richardson - and my role…

— Rob Lowe

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

— Francis Ford Coppola