Directors Quotes · Page 28

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

— John Waters

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

— Jim Rash

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

— Viggo Mortensen

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

— Roger Michell

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

— Bette Davis

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

— Debbie Allen

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's…

— Aaron Eckhart

There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't…

— Jennifer Lawrence

One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story…

— Ron Howard

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and…

— Colleen Atwood

There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a…

— Baz Luhrmann

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel…

— Akiva Schaffer

I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision…

— Frank Grillo

Actors can make five movies a year. A director can make one movie, every two years. It's a whole different level of…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely…

— Darren Lynn Bousman

I would have to say the most challenging thing about directing is the sheer stamina because... as a director, you're always doing…

— Michael Urie

I like working with south Indian directors because they are very disciplined. They visualize their entire story and screenplay in their heads…

— Akshay Kumar

I think the best directors rarely loose their temper. I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they…

— Luke Evans

David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted.…

— Anonymous

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg…

— Marg Helgenberger

f you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in…

— Oliver Parker

Any good director creates a playground. That's what they do. They hire the right actor, open the door and let them play…

— Martin Landau

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

— Jack Nicholson

Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.

— William Wyler

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

— Paul Haggis

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

— Lotte Reiniger

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

— Lyle Lovett

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

— Clive Barker

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

— John Frankenheimer

Directors were like schoolteachers. Do this. Do that. Don't do this. Don't do that. I dreaded it.

— Kishore Kumar

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

— Deborah Day

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

— Steven Spielberg

The movie Ed Wood, about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for Stargate.

— Roger Ebert

I think it will be great if we have more female directors in the world.

— Michiel Huisman

I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.

— Jeremy Piven

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.

— Franka Potente

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

— Alan Alda

My father is definitely the inspiration behind working with new directors.

— Naga Chaitanya