Directors Quotes · Page 24

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

— William Wyler

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

— Anthony Minghella

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

— Shahrukh Khan

I think it would be great to have more female directors making huge-budget movies.

— Jon Watts

Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.

— Wim Wenders

Cukor is one of my favorite directors. He was a master at directing women.

— Pedro Almodovar

I try to add as much as I can before a director says, 'Harold shut up!'

— Harold Lederman

My directors are always more confident about me doing a role than I am.

— Mahira Khan

Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I…

— Fede Alvarez

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

— Steven Bochco

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of…

— Fritz Lang

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological…

— Vsevolod Pudovkin

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director…

— Ricky Schroder

I think people take their behavioural tips from everyone else. So, if the director is calm and the lead actors are calm,…

— Robert B. Weide

If there's one thing that I know how to do, it's talk to actors. From what I have experienced working with so…

— Carrie Preston

Part of an actors job, in my opinion, is adjust to the characteristics of the director and try to understand to how…

— David Zayas

A lot of people love Tarantino’s films because they’re spectacular, they’re beautiful, they’re wonderful. He hires the best group of artists -…

— Demian Bichir

I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies…

— David Gordon Green

If you have a vision or if you believe the director has a vision, then at least you've got something to talk…

— Kurt Russell

I've never acted before in a movie I've directed. This felt like the time to do it just because the " Leaves…

— Edward Norton

With acting it's your neck up there in the end. And if you think the director can't help you it's one thing.…

— John Malkovich

I've always appreciated directors but I have a newfound appreciation for them and producers and everyone who does what they do that…

— Odeya Rush

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a…

— Mia Wasikowska

It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different…

— Todd Farmer

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical…

— James Dean

First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's…

— Alexey Brodovitch

There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use…

— E.J. Bonilla

You can't see any movie nowadays really without it having some sort of CGI treatment, albeit whether it's a creature or an…

— Brendan Fraser

The role I played [in theatre] was originated by Ian McKellen in 1979 and he came. I didn't know he was there…

— Patrick Heusinger

My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was…

— Meera Menon

I don't think enough directors know enough about editing.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

The first must that any director has is to not force his public.

— Sergio Leone

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

— Julianne Moore

If everyone's comfortable, you can pretty much make any kind of movie that the director wants.

— Jeff Fahey

I've done lots of films with first directors, so it's not unusual for me.

— John Hurt

Its always nice to work with fresh directors. They bring such passion and enthusiasm to the work.

— Tisca Chopra

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.

— Abhay Deol

As soon as an actor has faith in a director, he just goes with it.

— Katia Winter