Directors Quotes · Page 18

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

— Ray Stevenson

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

— Cillian Murphy

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

— David Hemmings

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

— Asia Argento

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

— Ed Helms

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

— Hugh Jackman

The biggest thing I learned is directors don't make a lot of money on a movie.

— Shane Dawson

I don't think I'd be a good director because people would ask me, you know, "What is it? What's going on here?…

— Christopher Walken

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because…

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and…

— Timur Bekmambetov

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the…

— Emmanuel Lubezki

You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really…

— Shekhar Kapur

There's not a lot of talking between actors - either between actors or between actors and directors. People think that they sit…

— Christopher Walken

Everything starts with writing. And then to support your vision, your ideas, your philosophy, your jokes, whatever, you've gotta perform them and/or…

— Mel Brooks

In live-action, writing, production, and editing happen in discrete stages. In animation, they overlap - happening simultaneously. This allows a real dialogue…

— Michael Arndt

There is too great a tendency (perhaps encouraged by popular journalism) to deal with the dramatic moments, forgetting that these are not…

— Mary Parker Follett

The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in…

— Erro

As soon as you start making a film that's expensive then the studio wants total control over all elements of it because…

— Jim Jarmusch

When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as…

— C. Vivian Stringer

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is…

— Griffin Dunne

It's interesting for me to do the commentary with the actors because, as a director, you're so in your own world that…

— Catherine Hardwicke

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film…

— Rebecca Hall

Sometimes you think, "Oh man, this is going to be a fantastic movie," and then when you see it put together, you're…

— Anna Faris

I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television…

— Elijah Wood

My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and…

— Tony Kushner

This is many, many years ago. It was shortly after "Starman" I think. I don't know how close I was to getting…

— Jeff Bridges

My fourth mother, my godmother, she passed away a couple years ago - her name was Gwen. She was the theater director…

— Erykah Badu

It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day…

— Dan Mazer

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the…

— Victor Hugo

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

— Alan Cumming

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

— Catherine Deneuve

I get to meet different directors and different people.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

— Jean Dujardin

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

— Adam McKay

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

— Bill Mumy