Directors Quotes · Page 21

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

— Felicity Jones

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

— Diane Paulus

Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified.

— Marianne Elliott

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

— Natalie Portman

When I see the work of other directors, I feel inspired.

— Kabir Khan

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents…

— Orson Welles

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

— Mara Wilson

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

— Roger Ross Williams

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set…

— Alan Parker

In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way…

— Peter Mullan

It's an embarrassment of riches because you have directors who don't better. You end up with so much stuff going on the…

— John Dykstra

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director…

— Monica Raymund

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how…

— Joe Wright

I was meeting a lot of directors and reading scripts, and I was like, "Well, I'd love to play this part," but…

— Joel Kinnaman

Of all the projects I've worked on, I've never worked with another director like Billy Friedkin. I think he's a genius.

— Linda Blair

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.

— Steve Carell

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action…

— Ice Cube

I'm trying to avoid any more asshole roles, at least for a little bit. The main criteria for me when choosing a…

— Dave Franco

I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money…

— Matthew Lesko

To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to…

— Dino De Laurentiis

I do have more directorial control over animation, because it's like trial and error: If something doesn't work, you can always go…

— Mamoru Oshii

When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But…

— Dennis Haysbert

For an actor, it's very important to get a clear idea of what a director wants, and their intention for what they…

— Clive Owen

Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broadway musicals, and one of…

— Will Rothhaar

When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you…

— Jeph Loeb

That and when you're doing live action you don't normally get to see the thing before it's in production. In this case…

— Jonathan M. Goldstein

It's not hard to understand why an accomplished director like Gus Van Sant (whose most recent success, Good Will Hunting, gave him…

— James Berardinelli

The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily…

— Laurence Sterne

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just…

— Biz Stone

Noah Baumbach does more takes than any director I've ever worked with. He runs a very quiet set and he runs a…

— Greta Gerwig

I don’t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the…

— Jessica Chastain

I believe you can never stop growing and learning and I've been very fortunate to have been working since I was 10…

— Taylor Lautner

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

— Donnie Yen

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

— Matthew Vaughn

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

— Melanie Laurent

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

— Leon Askin

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

— Zoe Cassavetes

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

— Dominic Monaghan

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

— Chris Rock