Directors Quotes · Page 23

Ultimately when I throw myself behind a movie, I have to really believe in that directors vision.

— Christine Vachon

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.

— William H. Macy

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

— Kola Boof

That was the good thing about having different directors [on series]. You had to stay on your toes.

— Robert Pattinson

Over the years with movies, I've given directors notes.

— Harvey Weinstein

To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

— Steven Soderbergh

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

— Bobby Farrelly

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

— Gene Tierney

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

— Damian Loeb

A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and…

— Jon M. Chu

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to…

— Shailene Woodley

I am lucky that I have worked with some wonderful directors so far - Madhur Bhandarkar and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, among others.

— Divya Dutta

Whenever I work on something, I try and throw everything I have at it. Then if the director finds it useful they…

— John C. Reilly

I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They…

— Vinessa Shaw

I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So…

— Anne Fontaine

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I like the fact that I have two names because I find that in this industry you have to have dual personalities…

— Drake

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I…

— Jane Campion

I think every responsible public board at every board meeting should be discussing succession. And, of course, Walmart has a very mature…

— Mike Duke

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a…

— Tim Bevan

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my…

— Holt McCallany

It doesn't matter if you work with an Oscar winner or if you work with an unknown actor. There is always a…

— Baran Odar

What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn't see me for the same part that they'll see,…

— Eva Mendes

The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he…

— Vandana Shiva

I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we…

— George R. R. Martin

Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And…

— Nora Ephron

Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,…

— David Lynch

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had…

— Carl Sagan

We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for…

— Bill Murray

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad…

— Joe McNally

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

— Chloe Sevigny

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

— Clint Eastwood

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

— Ransom Riggs

All of these great directors I've worked with, they've all come to me. I never go after it.

— Udo Kier

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.

— Ang Lee

I have no complaints. I've worked with worse directors in my career.

— Tyrese Gibson

Any great director is also someone who is incredibly intelligent about whom they hire around them.

— Ryan Reynolds

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky