Directors Quotes · Page 30

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

— Megan Hilty

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

— Alber Elbaz

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

— Douglas Sirk

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

— Joaquin Phoenix

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

— King Vidor

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

— Kirk Franklin

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

— Marty Feldman

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.

— Quentin Tarantino

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy…

— Douglas Rushkoff

I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When…

— Ian Mckellen

Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which…

— Tim Conway

I've directed things that other people have written before, and I've written things and given them to other directors. So I'm very…

— Ryan Coogler

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would…

— Vikram Rohit Shetty

When you're not gaping at Megan Fox enough to listen to what the director's saying, you can get some work done.

— Peter Jacobson

I want to be an author/director and I'm writing my second book now and I want to make a movie of it,…

— Stephen Chbosky

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later…

— Laura Dern

I'm a producer, writer, director. I'm putting everything together very fast, and I'm strong and focused on making the next film as…

— Malgorzata Szumowska

For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we shoot a scene. If…

— Denis Leary

If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is…

— Ayelet Zurer

I've come to a point where I just want to do movies that I just believe in. I have come to an…

— James Franco

I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was…

— Steve Martin

I had a 90-minute one-man show. I performed it and my life just exploded. Everything - my life just changed. Every writer,…

— Chazz Palminteri

You have to be willing to be manipulated in the first place because you can either recognize that in your director and…

— Heath Ledger

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life…

— Nicolas Cage

I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.

— Zoe Wanamaker

There is a magic thing called 'tone' in a film, that the director must master and maintain.

— Rebecca Miller

I can't think of a lot of bad directors I've worked with, really.

— Richard Jenkins

Directors have so much else to do besides tell actors what to do. There are so many issues and problems.

— Michael Douglas

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

— Sally Kellerman

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

— Christina Ricci

Both Ram Gopal Varma and Subhash Ghai are great directors and it was a great experience working with them.

— Victor Banerjee

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

— Bruce Lee

I don't think anyone can really make up their mind and say, Now I'm going to be a director.

— Judd Hirsch

There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music.

— Alex North

When I'm acting, I'm in the director's hands. I'm very happy to be. I like to be focused on what I'm doing.

— Kenneth Branagh

When there is a pain-in-the-neck role for a girl to play, the directors start yelling 'Agnes.'

— Agnes Moorehead

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

— Elia Kazan

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

— Famke Janssen

Ultimately, making movies, if you don't have a big star, it's hard to do. Or if it's not a star director.

— Chris Messina

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

— Conrad Hall