Directors Quotes · Page 15

Todd Solondz is one of my favorite directors.

— Eric Wareheim

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

— Ridley Scott

Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.

— Robert Rodriguez

As a director, I never feel that I have the answers.

— Diane Paulus

I think the best directors rarely lose their temper.

— Luke Evans

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

— Anthony Michael Hall

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

— Jane Campion

With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master.

— Joel Kinnaman

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn

I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.

— James Denton

The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator.

— Ken Loach

Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.

— Mahesh Babu

My biggest advice for women writer/directors is to always be attempting to make work that avoids pandering to the conceptions that the…

— Rania Attieh

There's no director who wants to portray cheese puffs with a certain color that's going to make or break the commercial, in…

— Jamie Hyneman

There's very exciting directors who haven't made a feature yet. That's what's cool about the job - the ever-changing landscape of people…

— Jamie Dornan

I think that it is a total shame that we don't have more female directors or rather, more opportunities for them. It…

— Greta Lee

I am still very surprised that I managed to make that film [Close Up]. When I actually look back on that film,…

— Abbas Kiarostami

And when I have lived elsewhere, every two weeks I have to fly back to LA. Even New York directors go there…

— Scott Speedman

I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If…

— Glenn Ford

To have a museum like the Museum of Modern Art in New York is to have power. I don't have any interest…

— Luis Gonzalez

I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm…

— Daryl Hannah

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

— Burton Richter

There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been…

— Meryl Streep

The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of…

— Anonymous

In a love scene that's really advantageous because you don't have that horrible moment of: "We don't really know what we're supposed…

— James McAvoy

Rent Control was an interesting movie. It was directed by... I had done a couple of plays off Broadway, and this Italian…

— Brent Spiner

I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working…

— Max Beesley

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was…

— Anonymous

The actor's physical type isn't and shouldn't be the main consideration. Does the actor look the part? It is the simplest question…

— Harold Clurman

I don't recall a show I've ever been on that had the same director do two episodes in a row, but in…

— Glen Morgan

Always get to the set or the location early, so that you can be all alone and draw your inspiration for the…

— Martin Scorsese

Before writing a single note of music, and even before the spotting session, I find it best to sit down with the…

— John Keltonic

The actor's physical type is the main consideration. It isn't and shouldn't be. Does the actor "look the part"? It is the…

— Harold Clurman

I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the…

— Steven Spielberg

Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge…

— H. L. Mencken

I kind of started with this foundation, and tried to do all the research I could do for Alice [Cullen], and then…

— Ashley Greene

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

— Zhang Ziyi

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

— Jonathan Frakes