Directors Quotes · Page 29

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did.

— Joan Crawford

At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

— Carmen Ejogo

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

— Kelly Lynch

I think drug movies free the director to make intense films

— Ray Liotta

That was okay [ working with George Clooney]. One of these days I'll work with a good director.

— John Krasinski

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

— Ida Lupino

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.

— Kristen Stewart

Bud [Yorkin] was the kindest and dearest man, and one of the most talented directors there was.

— Norman Lear

Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.

— John Roecker

I don't know a single collector or museum director who says: 'Oh, he's on a list, so I think I'll buy something…

— Olafur Eliasson

There's something special about working with picture and adding music to picture that really takes you to a whole new level. It's…

— Lior Ron

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because…

— Audrey Tautou

I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great.

— Harry Dean Stanton

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more…

— Kim Cattrall

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when directors were able to find such…

— Roger Ebert

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of…

— John Turturro

Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director,…

— Deborah Smith

The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from…

— Geena Davis

[Director] Peter Wallerstein does great work rescuing sea life along the shores of LA, and I helped raise money for sanctuaries such…

— Alison Eastwood

In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to…

— Carl Icahn

When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one,…

— Betty Dodson

[Akiro] Kurosawa, no doubt, was a big influence. Movies sometimes more than directors have influenced me: The Grapes of Wrath, by John…

— Costa-Gavras

I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by…

— Ranbir Kapoor

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen…

— Argus Hamilton

I care a lot about who I'm working with as directors and other actors.

— Stephan James

The script is what you've dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

— George Lucas

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end.

— Woody Allen

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

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

— John Waters

I think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.

— Nina Jacobson

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

— Guillermo del Toro

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

— Carroll O'Connor