Directors Quotes · Page 10

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

— Colin Hanks

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

— Sarah Gadon

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

— Joss Whedon

Every director is so different from every other one.

— Peter Fonda

(When asked what a director does) I help.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I like special directors, and I've collected a few.

— Udo Kier

Directors typecasting actors is passe.

— Amrita Rao

I have worked with some very great directors.

— Ray Walston

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

— Toni Servillo

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

— Christopher Eccleston

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

— Zach Braff

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

— Troian Bellisario

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

— Dino De Laurentiis

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

— Robert Benton

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

— Jon Lovitz

A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for…

— Mark Duplass

One thing I'm so grateful for is sidestepping the usual venture capital, private equity route. My friends who have gone that way…

— Blake Mycoskie

Awards are important for all directors because they improve your working conditions. You're only as good as your last film, so if…

— Michael Haneke

When you are not working in TV and primarily doing film, you're working with one director for a long period of time,…

— Asia Kate Dillon

I don't need to work right away. I'd rather wait for something really good; to be excited about a role, or a…

— Nina Dobrev

Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part…

— Catherine McCormack

Having an investor on your board of directors who is naive about public markets or finds them complex or scary is non-optimal.

— Bill Gurley

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen…

— Roman Coppola

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that…

— Christian Bale

If you are the writer/director especially, no one cares more about the project than you do. You know it in and out.…

— Zoe Cassavetes

I came in on this movie after there had been a director and I came in after Tom Courtenay had talked to…

— Dustin Hoffman

Once in a while I come across a director who hasgrown up thousands of miles from me, and the work touches me.Through…

— Werner Herzog

In general, the few directors that I've worked with that I really respect have taught me a lot about who I am…

— Dave Franco

It's hard not to be enthusiastic when you like what you're doing and I love what I do. I love writing stories,…

— Stan Lee

I love watching audiences scream. I imagine it's the same joy that a director feels who has made a comedy when he…

— Leigh Whannell

I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after directors have been around…

— Ellen Burstyn

Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning…

— Jackie Chan

“Unfortunately, the board of directors that the middle managers report to generally make them aggressive. Imagine being hired into a company and…

— Steven Magee

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

Marlee has said a million times, "Wouldn't it be funny if there was a camera trained on the two of us?" because…

— Jack Jason

The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those…

— Orson Welles

Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very…

— Alan Chambers

When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll…

— Yvon Chouinard

In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic…

— Pope Pius XI