Directors Quotes · Page 31

I don’t create art to get high dollar projects, I do high dollar projects so I can create more art.

— Chase Jarvis

I began stealing a lot of ideas from other directors I had worked with.

— Adam Rapp

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

— Sam Mendes

I don't like directors that just say, Stand there and now do this.

— Joe Pantoliano

I think film is a world of directors. Theater is a world of actors.

— Diego Luna

When you get to work with people like Ian McKellen or directors like Peter Jackson, you sit and watch.

— Luke Evans

Every director is themselves; [they're] not playing a part.

— Scarlett Johansson

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

— Max von Sydow

Here, we have female directors and producers; in fact, one whole channel is run by a woman. Pakistani TV is progressive, and…

— Umera Ahmad

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process…

— Alfonso Ribeiro

I strongly agree that a National Intelligence Director should be established to oversee and coordinate the 15 federal intelligence agencies.

— Jim Ramstad

If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the…

— Emma Watson

It's always a good collaboration between the actor and the writer and the director to try stuff out, during the process.

— Mark Consuelos

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

— Adam Driver

After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: “She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!”

— Ava Gardner

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the…

— Kenneth Branagh

When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones…

— Edward Norton

Nollywood is a genre, and not the entire Nigerian film industry. However none of the 'New wave' of directors in Nigeria would…

— Chika Anadu

I think I'm an extremely conscientious producer and now equally as a director and it gives me the opportunity to look at…

— Tony Krantz

And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and…

— Josh Lawson

I'm drawn to a lot of first-time directors. One of the great common denominators in these small independent films is that there's…

— William H. Macy

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable…

— Akira Kurosawa

I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had…

— Stephan James

The longer I've been a director, the less I have to 'direct.'

— Hannes Holm

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

— Jonathan Frakes

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

— Gloria Swanson

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

— Stanley Donen

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

— Woody Allen

I always felt I wouldn't be able to carry off what the directors require from me. Luckily, I manage.

— Waheeda Rehman

I've always envisioned working with the best directors in the world.

— Mena Massoud

I'm more prone to anarchy than I am to control - even though I'm a film director.

— Terry Gilliam

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

— Janine Turner

I think Jesse Eisenberg is such a great writer. He was a great director and really tough.

— Parker Posey

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

— James Lipton

Most of the great directors I've worked with - De Palma, Spike Lee - like rehearsals.

— John Leguizamo

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

— Marc Jacobs

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

— Steven Spielberg

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

— Agnes Varda

To me, one of the main things that a director does is create the tone of his movie.

— Peter Sarsgaard