Directors Quotes · Page 2

No two directors make the same film the same way.

— Rob Cohen

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

— Skeet Ulrich

I worked for a lot of directors.

— Tony Gilroy

I have worked with the best of actors and directors.

— Shefali Shah

I am the best film director in the world.

— Lars von Trier

Directors, like actors, get typecast.

— John Landis

Time management is a big part of the director's job.

— Debbie Allen

The directors are always sharp. It's true.

— George Clooney

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

— Samuel Goldwyn

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

— Ida Lupino

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

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

— Elia Kazan

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 think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of…

— Matt Damon

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I…

— Francesco Carrozzini

As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

— Joshua Michael Stern

It is great to work on different scripts with different directors who have different styles. You get so much experience from that.

— Devon Bostick

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

— Daniel Radcliffe

And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.

— Sidney Blumenthal

It always surprises me when I see the director's versions of films released separately, long after the film's theatrical run.

— Sonia Braga

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Nancy has her vision and she's a formidable force to be reckoned with, and that's similar to most of the male directors…

— Amanda Peet

I'm grateful to have been acting for as long as I have because I have so many experiences and memories, and I've…

— Dakota Fanning

Not everyone is sold on crisis consultants. Linda Gray, assistant vice president and director of news and information at the University of…

— Linda Gray

Again, I want to give credit where credit is due to our voice director, Collette Sunderman, who is someone that works out…

— Jeph Loeb

Before the days of video village a director should stand right next to the camera, look with his naked eye and if…

— Matt Damon

When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who…

— Richard Condon

This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do…

— Robert Mitchum

I think it's hard for women to be directors, particularly in the feature world because, biologically, your peak career-making years are also…

— Laura Ziskin

There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia…

— Pankaj Mishra

Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy…

— Brent Spiner

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our…

— David Rockefeller

Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a…

— Van Jones

The broadening of the economic order which came to be seated in the individual property owner... dramatized by Jefferson's purchase of the…

— C. Wright Mills

I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave…

— Angelina Jolie

A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this…

— Mike Lofgren

Criticism should be done by critics, and a critic should have some training and some love of the medium he is discussing.…

— Peter Sellers