Directors Quotes · Page 36

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

— Julie Chen

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

— George Cukor

Directors love to do music, they've been doing that all along.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I do my best to hold the director's opinion above my own.

— Jeff Bridges

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

— Kevin McDonald

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

— James Garner

It's not often that you get a director, singing the praises of his executives.

— Nick Willing

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the…

— Anonymous

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun…

— Mickey Rourke

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed.…

— Richard Perle

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

— James Caan

As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the…

— Federico Fellini

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

— Stephen Rea

I was going to say we saw Secretary [Hillary] Clinton reported that she believes that she would've won the election but for…

— George Stephanopoulos

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do…

— Lesley Manville

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are. On a certain level, everyone throws ideas into…

— Richard Gere

It's just that the nature of being a director is being incredibly overwhelmed with getting the shots right, dealing with the locations,…

— Jay Duplass

It's through working with a lot of first-time directors that I realized that people learn on their feet. Everybody works on something…

— Jess Weixler

There are so many ways to help, by either sharing your skills or expertise, joining our board of directors or advisory boards,…

— Ian Somerhalder

The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also…

— Bun B

I guess the story that best defines us [with Bud Yorkin] and our relationship goes back to the [Dean] Martin and [Jerry]…

— Norman Lear

During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos…

— Mandy Patinkin

As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think…

— Natalie Dormer

Directors tend to kind of let me do what I want to do.

— Ellen Burstyn

I want to interact creatively with the directors I work with - it's a thrilling way to work.

— Dervla Kirwan

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

— Ava DuVernay

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

— Pauly Shore

I've watched directors since my very first day of acting because I knew I wanted to direct.

— Austin Nichols

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

— Andre Holland

When Chris Nolan is your director you are like, "I trust that, I'm wrong."

— Anne Hathaway

As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.

— Hani Furstenberg

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me.

— Mark Ruffalo

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

— Jon Lovitz

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

— Dino De Laurentiis

The thing I loved the most about being art director was picking the photographers and working with them.

— Robert Benton

We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

It's exciting to work with new directors with new ideas.

— Waheeda Rehman

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

— Jeanne Moreau