Directors Quotes · Page 35

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

— Joan Crawford

My father is definitely the inspiration behind working with new directors.

— Naga Chaitanya

I think a good director casts a film so that the actors bring a lot to the table.

— Debbie Allen

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

— Viggo Mortensen

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

— Bette Davis

I've tried to stay out of the frame more as a director.

— Roger Michell

Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.

— John Waters

I think most co-directors and co-writers just hold hands.

— Jim Rash

I had a role in 'Crossroads' when I was about 21, and then I went on to perform in 'Small Change' and…

— Luke Evans

I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your…

— Hilary Swank

I thank my directors who keep faith in my acting credentials and give me roles like I did in 'Uyir' and 'Dhanam.'

— Sangeetha Krish

I've worked with a lot of first-time directors who kind of look to me for ideas and opinions and stuff, and I'm…

— Jeff Bridges

I've always wanted to work with the best directors. Directors lead you to the best material and thus the best actors.

— Shea Whigham

There are plenty of directors who work with the same actors over and over, many more times than I have. Like I…

— Len Wiseman

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite…

— Griffin Dunne

I learnt a lot from the directors with whom I have worked like Sudhir Mishra in 'Daas Dev,' Prawaal Raman in 'Main…

— Richa Chadha

Hmm, can I be obvious and say there is probably a double standard for male vs. female directors? Sadly, I think that's…

— Lynn Shelton

It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds…

— Sarah Polley

Simon McBurney on "All My Sons" on Broadway - we had an eight-week rehearsal period and I really enjoyed the way that…

— Katie Holmes

It's actually a character choice for a movie I've been filming in South Korea called Okja. My director had this idea of…

— Lily Collins

It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club…

— Robert Glasper

Guys never looked at me. I always had crushes on older seniors who never looked at me. So, when I tell directors…

— Katrina Kaif

I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can.…

— Eddie Redmayne

You watch him playing Jack Sparrow, and he's loving it, and he's loving being in that world. He's still excited by it.…

— Keira Knightley

Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.

— William Wyler

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

— Jack Nicholson

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

— Mike White

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

— Lotte Reiniger

I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.

— Lyle Lovett

Even a modicum of celebrity is hard to deal with. You see it with actors and directors all the time.

— Paul Haggis

Nobody cares for the product I, and a host of other horror directors, make.

— Clive Barker

The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized.

— John Frankenheimer

There are a small list of directors and writers I would work with.

— Brenda Fricker

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

— Harry Hamlin

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

— Dorothy Malone

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

— Anonymous

A lot of directors don't bother to go back and look at their films, but I do.

— James Ivory

Good directors don't answer questions with their work. They generate debate and create discussion.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.

— Andrew Dice Clay

The director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell. He gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

— Steve Buscemi