Directors Quotes · Page 13

Larry Kasdan is a great director.

— Brion James

As a director who loves the camera you learn a lot.

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Directors never direct me. They just let me loose.

— John Carradine

I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.

— Naomie Harris

I know I don't go looking for directors.

— Ciaran Hinds

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.

— John Irving

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

— Bob Fosse

All actors are muses for their directors.

— Waheeda Rehman

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

— Guillaume Canet

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

— Joseph Kosinski

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

— Kevin Munroe

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

— Laura Vandervoort

Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.

— Monica Bellucci

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

— Scott Mechlowicz

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

— Michael Pitt

I think to be a good director you have to be a good person and you have to care about people.

— Kristen Stewart

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

— Spike Lee

I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Supremely, spiritual directors/mentors/pastors are persons who have a sense of being 'established' in God. Otherwise they are too dangerous to be allowed…

— Anonymous

I guess maybe directors see a face that seems to have been lived in. I know that my face has been lived…

— Luke Evans

I like working with a first time director. I'm more likely to work with a first time director than I am a…

— Peter Sarsgaard

I think we'd like to direct. Not so much because we'd like to be directors... we'd like to see how one of…

— Christopher Markus

There's something mystical and wonderful about being in the room with the actual live performer s on stage that works. In film,…

— Marshall Brickman

Working in film, if you work with great directors, you learn that after every take you must let go. Sitting with my…

— Ben Kingsley

I think that what kind of is making this different is the creative group of us that has come together and we're…

— Boti Bliss

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting…

— Julie Delpy

Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making…

— Ingmar Bergman

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say…

— Ben Affleck

When you can sit down with a plain sheet of paper in front of you and make some notes, and, little by…

— Stan Lee

I love Ron Howard, he's a wonderful director, incredibly prepared. But I have to criticize my performance in that movie. It all…

— Glenn Close

Part of the problem is that many directors treat female characters too often as precious. Or they want to live in a…

— David Leitch

Directors like Satyajit Ray, Rossellini, Bresson, Buñuel, Forman, Scorsese, and Spike Lee have used non-professional actors precisely in order that the people…

— John Berger

We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good…

— Samuel Morse

It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best…

— Christopher Walken

I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson…

— Wynton Marsalis

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at…

— Bill Murray

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

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…

— Richard Leakey