Directors Quotes · Page 11

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

— Vera Farmiga

Some directors have the gift of the gab, but I don't.

— Marianne Elliott

It's mostly directors whom I get starstruck around.

— Sarah Gadon

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

— Colin Hanks

All producers and directors want to make good films.

— Naga Chaitanya

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

— Todd Solondz

Above all, a director has to be a good captain.

— Charlton Heston

I'm very director oriented.

— John Hurt

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine.

— Shirley Booth

A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

— Omar Epps

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

— Shirley Knight

I want to work with as many directors as possible because with each director, you learn something new.

— Kalki Koechlin

I would love to be a fly on the wall watching other directors and actors to see what their process is like.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Shaping it is something I would expect to do together with a writer, because that's a director's job.

— Ken Loach

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

— Michael Caine

Directors should not be forced to advocate anything in their works because of their demographic identity.

— Esra Saydam

I adapt to directors, I don't like making directors adapt to me. If I'm with Clint Eastwood then I'll do two takes,…

— Jennifer Lawrence

The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you dont have to shave or hold…

— Dick Powell

I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been…

— James Denton

Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer,…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

I would love to experiment with roles. But when people say that we are not doing anything different, it is because directors…

— Rakul Preet Singh

In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the…

— Ian Mckellen

It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer…

— Terry Southern

Producers and directors think they have the power, but what they think of as the weakest link, the actor, is all-powerful.

— Ken Stott

You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're…

— Mike Birbiglia

The challenge in writing the songs for The Aristocats truly fell on the animators & director of the film. Robert & I…

— Richard Sherman

The directors I consider really great have the ability to recognize when something's going in an unexpected direction and see it as…

— Susan Sarandon

Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind…

— Daniel Keyes

While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA,…

— Benjamin E. Sasse

I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at…

— Pauley Perrette

The directors did an amazing job and Josh Holloway is just he's just shining. I think that, of the people I started…

— Evangeline Lilly

Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide…

— Kurt Vonnegut

In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New…

— John Butler

In the neighborhood around Waseda, there were all these movie theaters, so every morning I left the house and watched movies instead…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

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

There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew.…

— Amy Irving

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

The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I…

— John Hurt

I'm certainly not going to tell other people what they should do with their own personal lives. I think it's certainly easier…

— John Waters

There's another aspect about the Seventies. Blazing Saddles, as wonderful as it was, sort of hurt the Western. It made such fun…

— Quentin Tarantino