Directors Quotes · Page 25

I don't think film is the writer's medium, and so I was interested to see what a director would do with it.

— Daniel Handler

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

— Yash Chopra

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

— Martin Short

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

— Sanjay Dutt

Good directors give short and specific instructions to their actors.

— Bill Hader

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

— Mel Smith

I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.

— Adrienne Shelly

I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu.

— Emma Watson

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or…

— Francois Truffaut

I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how…

— Nathan Fillion

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

— John Boorman

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture,…

— Stephanie Zacharek

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell…

— Anne Fletcher

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

— Anton Yelchin

If you managed a baseball team, would you listen more closely to the team accountant or the director of player personnel?

— Jack Welch

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director…

— Lukas Haas

There's no director or actor that I want to work with more than anyone else, other then maybe Johnny Depp, who I…

— Callan McAuliffe

Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until…

— Jimmy Fallon

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of…

— Stephen Lang

I love the pictures of Old Hollywood, seeing the directors dressed in suits and ties. Even the grips would be wearing ties.…

— Paul Feig

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or…

— Joe Queenan

Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you're going to dance.…

— Brian J. White

I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.'…

— Rob Marshall

There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the…

— Pauline Kael

I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge.…

— Zachary Quinto

We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw…

— Al Pacino

I think that for a lot of actors - especially American actors - to get line readings and to be told and…

— Jon Bernthal

American Graffiti was the first movie where the director let me have any input. It was the first time anyone ever listened…

— Harrison Ford

Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with…

— Sarah Vowell

Don't try and change things for other people. Don't try and be persuaded by producers and people to change your vision. If…

— Lynne Ramsay

For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the…

— Ai Weiwei

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

— John Waters

I like to work with directors who write their own stories.

— Udo Kier

I really like working with different directors. It's really fun.

— Asia Kate Dillon

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

— Tom Ford

Well, this is the second time I've done New Directors.

— Jim McKay

Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.

— Marion Cotillard

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

— Scott Caan

I'd love to see more women working as directors and producers.

— Ida Lupino