Directors Quotes · Page 19

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

— Malcolm McDowell

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

— Andre Øvredal

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

— Alden Ehrenreich

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

— Chow Yun-Fat

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

— Stanley Crouch

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

— Liz W. Garcia

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

— Michael Keaton

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

— Josh Radnor

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive…

— Michael Bay

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or…

— Norman Foster

When I took the job as Estée Lauder's creative director, the first thing I did was go into the archives! I love…

— Aerin Lauder

I think directing yourself is a monumental task. Just to self edit as an actor, you work for some directors who don't…

— Ashton Kutcher

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I am blessed to have got a chance to work with directors like Anurag Kashyap, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Nikhil Advani at such…

— Huma Qureshi

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

— Eli Roth

When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like…

— Denzel Washington

I don't look like the way we've painted directors in our movies and everything since forever. I don't look like an old…

— Marielle Heller

In a lot of movies, honestly, the directors don't talk to you that much. Maybe they say, "Faster, slower," whatever. Sometimes they…

— John Turturro

I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at…

— Cate Blanchett

The main thing the composer needs to do is it needs to remember that the director is there to cheer you on.…

— Hans Zimmer

The bottom line is if the movie does well, everybody is happy and they forget about what they went through. And if…

— Robert De Niro

I'm very superstitious about going on other people's sets. You have to ask permission of the director; you shouldn't just turn up…

— Ben Wheatley

The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so…

— Eric Stoltz

The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was…

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I really like the director [for Weeds]. I don't know if you've spoken to him yet but he's really, really intelligent. He…

— Mary-Louise Parker

To the documentary director the appearance of things and people is only superficial. It is the meaning behind the thing and the…

— Paul Rotha

I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations…

— Kofi Annan

I also really loved the friendship between these two women, and watching these two very different women working in this gritty male…

— Sasha Alexander

[The Head of Radio Three] had been ensnared by the Music Director of the college and a Professor of Philosophy. These two…

— Douglas Adams

It was fantastic to be able to have my kids on set. Dash, my eldest son, who’s not quite five, was into…

— Cate Blanchett

I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed…

— Brittany Murphy

If a director says he doesn't care how many people see his films at all, I simply don't believe him. Otherwise why…

— Michael Haneke

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

— Frank Ocean

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

— Mamoru Oshii

Directors should be paid for promising impossible things.

— Diego Luna

Lloyd Richards is another director who was like that, who was a teacher.

— Viola Davis

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

— Dane Cook

I am grateful to those directors who actually designed roles for me.

— Rao Ramesh

When we choose only love as the director of our mind we can experience the power and miracle of love.

— Anonymous

Kenneth Branagh is one of the funniest directors on the set. You laugh a lot. He's very skillful.

— Stellan Skarsgard