Directors Quotes · Page 3

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

— Harrison Ford

Every director works differently.

— Cate Blanchett

I love British female directors lately.

— John Cameron Mitchell

I want to work with good people and good directors.

— Aditi Rao Hydari

I generally have confidence in my directors.

— Mohanlal

“Even lizard + baby can be director.”

— Robert Robert

I am a very impatient director.

— Steven Spielberg

It's always the story that interests me.

— Vincente Minnelli

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

— Asia Argento

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

— David Hemmings

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

— Ed Helms

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

— Don Johnson

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

— Idris Elba

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

I think that certain directors are better at choosing actors that match well with each other. And I have feelings about actors…

— Kirsten Dunst

I love supporting emerging voices, and new writers and directors. I love engaging an audience in a way that doesn't have to…

— Zachary Quinto

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast…

— Taylor Hackford

Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over,…

— R. Lee Ermey

I've always really respected directors. As much as I was interested in acting, whenever I watched a film, it was always the…

— Paul Wesley

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through…

— Steven Spielberg

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

— Steven Price

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and…

— Renee O'Connor

There's good directors and bad directors. Some of the critics are really conscientious and really try to do what they can popularize…

— Peter Bogdanovich

Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who…

— John Frankenheimer

My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about…

— Honor Harger

I was the enemy of the major studio. I believed in one man - one film. I believed one man should make…

— Frank Capra

Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance…

— Sophie Barthes

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought…

— Jack Nicholson

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors…

— Paul Haggis

Some months after [Keith Alexander] made that statement [Edward Snowden cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation], the new director of…

— Edward Snowden

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,…

— Alexander Hamilton

The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but…

— Michel Chion

The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make…

— George Nolfi

It's probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I'm sure I'm more guilty of being difficult…

— Val Kilmer

With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure…

— Rosa DeLauro

American commercial cinema has long been dominated by men, but I don’t think there has ever been another time when women have…

— Manohla Dargis

At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first…

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

Certainly as actors, and maybe as directors, you've got to hang on to something childlike. You've got to know what play is.…

— Alan Rickman