Directors Quotes · Page 17

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

— Will Friedle

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

— Carroll Baker

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

— Gaspar Noe

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

— Stellan Skarsgard

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

— Ed Skrein

OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

— Jack Nicholson

I know a lot of editors who are very bitter about the directors they work with. They feel they could have done…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Therefore, when you see the end result, it's difficult to see who's the director, me or them. Ultimately, everything belongs to the…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother…

— Jodie Foster

It's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them…

— Elle Fanning

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the…

— Robert Morse

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make…

— David Wain

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and…

— Juliette Lewis

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of…

— George Cukor

There's very few directors I think in this industry that would pitch to a studio that they wanted to do a multi-layered…

— Christopher Nolan

Of course, I was completely enthralled by the space program as a kid - particularly Apollo 11 - and was glued to…

— Ron Howard

In a lot of cases, you think that the art director and the production designer designed and built this amazing set, when…

— Rick Heinrichs

I understood that I was not the best director in the world nor the worst director in the world. I realized that…

— Joe Mantello

Wayne Wang, the director of Because of Winn-Dixie the movie, understood the book and transferred as much of the feeling of the…

— Kate DiCamillo

As a director, you're only as good as your collaborators. You surround with collaborators that are going to understand what you're trying…

— Alfonso Cuaron

One of the great things about this cast is that we've been able to take actors of relatively the same age group…

— Alison Pill

There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the…

— James Thurber

[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you…

— Irving Langmuir

Television is a completely different industry now. It's just extraordinary. It's so wonderful, because there's more interesting product. It attracts the best…

— Jean Smart

The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types…

— Kasi Lemmons

You can't make theater happen without actors. The actor is the central ingredient in making theater happen. Audiences may come to theaters…

— Laurence Sterne

It was exciting to work with director Jennifer Baichwal, who made Manufactured Landscapes and others, on the film of Payback: Debt and…

— Margaret Atwood

If you're a certain type of actor, then eventually stepping into a director's shoes is a natural transition. I've always been the…

— Russell Crowe

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

— Famke Janssen

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

— Don Johnson

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

— Idris Elba

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

— Roger Ebert

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

— Elia Kazan