Directors Quotes · Page 20

After Star Trek, I was with the top agencies, but producers and directors did not know what to do with me.

— Persis Khambatta

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.

— Magda Gerber

I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

— Rebel Wilson

When you're a producer or director, there's so much sweat that goes into any given project.

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

The really important people in TV are not the directors; they're the writers.

— Mary Harron

Steve Zaillian is just the sweetest. A very, very wonderful and interesting director.

— Peter Jacobson

There are so many directors, young and old, around - all doing their thing and struggling.

— Noma Dumezweni

I care more about the directors that I get to work with as opposed to the actors.

— Lisa Haydon

I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my…

— Scarlett Johansson

I've been really lucky to work with some really great film people in the past, but television works on a much quicker…

— Michael Weatherly

You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

— Neil Gaiman

If someone were to hire me for a film they'd be getting a certain kind of package, that's for sure, a certain…

— Mike Patton

When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like…

— Viola Davis

I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider…

— Billy Bob Thornton

In truth, Edward Teller ran the Livermore Lab, but for public purposes he liked it better to be known as only an…

— John Gofman

I love being on sets with very seasoned directors as well as very new directors. Every time is a discovery process. You…

— Mark Wahlberg

I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute,…

— Mara Wilson

Me and Kirby are very collaborative and it changes from film to film. The first project we worked on together, Derrida, we…

— Amy Ziering

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my…

— Michael Haneke

It is only the untalented director who imagines him or herself in every part, wants his or her own thoughts and emotions…

— Liv Ullmann

I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me…

— Saoirse Ronan

I did a film called The Jesuit, which was an independent film. I did that shortly after Mistresses. I was still feeling…

— Shannyn Sossamon

Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at…

— Manny Farber

Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in…

— Roman Polanski

Choosing a director is like choosing a therapist - you want somebody who is going to be a step or two ahead…

— Donald Margulies

We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be…

— Madison Grant

Those first memories of my modeling career are not my favorite. At the beginning, it was tough. I was very lucky, my…

— Bianca Balti

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has…

— Douglas Booth

Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls…

— H. L. Mencken

It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I…

— Ethan Hawke

Today the average inhabitant of the western hemisphere knows a little of everything. He has the newspaper on his breakfast table and…

— Johan Huizinga

You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference…

— Daniel Simon

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

— Charlie Hunnam

Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

— Cate Blanchett

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

— Matt Bomer

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

— Charlie Munger

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

— Bryan Cranston

Film directors don't come to the theatre in Sydney. In London and New York, they do.

— Essie Davis

I like dangerous directors who like dangerous actors and dangerous productions.

— Tim Curry

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

— David Mamet