Directors Quotes · Page 32

The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.

— Francis Ford Coppola

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

— Sydney Pollack

As far as women directors in India go, I think we should have more of them.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

— David Oyelowo

That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people.

— Ray Harryhausen

I've had amazing experiences with directors who believed in me.

— Jason Clarke

A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.

— Melanie Laurent

I don't think you can be a director without a kind of sense of competitiveness.

— David Heyman

There are definitely directors I want to work with like Dibakar Banerji, Zoya Akhtar, Vishal Bharadwaj, and so many more.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts,…

— Jo Nesbo

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way…

— Louis C. K

Any film that you see is never just the director. If it's a film that you love, it's not so easy to…

— Vin Diesel

Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, "What makes you laugh?" Then…

— Matthew Lewis

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want…

— Michael Nyqvist

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the…

— George Stigler

I feel fortunate. I've really gotten to work with amazing talented people, and to learn from them, which is why I'm doing…

— Armie Hammer

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's…

— Jamie Campbell Bower

The directors were often really nice and I was well behaved, so I would just sit there in rehearsal. That allowed me…

— Condola Rashad

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can…

— Fred Melamed

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director…

— Hank Azaria

Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it.…

— Henry Jackman

I would just say there are no two roles that are more demanding than Bob Dylan of 1966 [Blanchett's role in 'I'm…

— Todd Haynes

Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots…

— Gina Bellman

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way…

— Paul Stanley

I'm pretty sure a lot of directors would be thrilled to cast age appropriate roles. I am.

— Zoe Cassavetes

Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him.

— Leon Askin

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

— Dominic Monaghan

You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face.

— Chris Rock

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

— Peter Mayhew

No athletic director holds office longer than two losing football coaches.

— Robert Zuppke

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents…

— Orson Welles

The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.

— Mara Wilson

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

— Roger Ross Williams

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

— Donnie Yen

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

— Matthew Vaughn

Directors have this mask of being in control and in charge, but underneath, I'm terrified.

— Marianne Elliott

As a director you have to - you don't have the option of saying, "I'm not watching this."

— Natalie Portman

When I see the work of other directors, I feel inspired.

— Kabir Khan

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

— Charlie Munger

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

— Bryan Cranston