Directors Quotes · Page 22

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

— Robert Zuppke

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

— Peter Mayhew

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

— Steven Spielberg

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

— Agnes Varda

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

— Sydney Pollack

As far as women directors in India go, I think we should have more of them.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

— Denzel Washington

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about…

— Sanaa Lathan

The whole thing with comedy is that you are always in control. Writer, director, actor, producer, and sometimes bouncer. And you are…

— Dane Cook

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work…

— Catherine Keener

There are so many great directors and actors, like Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar, Rakeysh Ompraskash Mehra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Anurag Basu - the…

— Sobhita Dhulipala

As an actor and director, you have to take risks, even though I don't like saying that word. You can make a…

— Jean Dujardin

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence…

— Andrew Sarris

I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an…

— Jude Law

I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start…

— Sam Taylor-Johnson

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans…

— Elizabeth Pena

As long as you have a director, that's your feedback. It's the director telling you, "Okay. That was great! Okay. Can we…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound…

— Patrick Wilson

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but…

— John Woo

I'm a lot more selective with work these days. My perfect plan is to do one movie every nine months. It would…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

I ask a million questions, and I insist on having answers. I think that is what we have to do. I have…

— Mads Mikkelsen

It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they…

— Rutger Hauer

I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is…

— Anna Dello Russo

I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do…

— Christopher Nolan

I took photos from 1976 to when I left in 1993, primarily for Interview and a column I had called "Bob Colacello's…

— Bob Colacello

...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the…

— Morris Berman

You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio…

— Rainn Wilson

Given that most movies are bad, and that there are whole categories and sub-categories of badness - the sequel, the Madonna Movie,…

— Andrew O'Hagan

In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own…

— Jim Jefferies

J.C. [Chandor] was the kind of energy we were looking for, so we decided to get behind it with all of our…

— Zachary Quinto

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

— David Oyelowo

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

— Ray Harryhausen

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

— Jason Clarke

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

— Mary Stuart Masterson

As an action director, I always try to bring something fresh and new.

— Donnie Yen

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

— Steven Spielberg

My main interest in being a director, and the most important thing to me, is that world with the actors.

— Matt Reeves

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

— Tom Clancy