Directors Quotes · Page 37

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

— Eric Stoltz

My ideal role would be the lead in a film with a director that I really appreciate and admire.

— Logan Lerman

The director of the FBI...said we can't know for certain who these people are coming from Syria.

— Mike Pence

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

— Toni Servillo

Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.

— Jason Alexander

My dad is a successful television producer, director and writer and my mom's a director and writer.

— Troian Bellisario

I think film and television are really a director's medium, whereas theatre is the actor's medium.

— Christopher Eccleston

I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?

— Zach Braff

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British…

— Leslie Caron

It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be…

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of…

— Sylvester Stallone

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers…

— Stark Sands

Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not…

— Varun Dhawan

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director…

— Lorene Scafaria

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with…

— Ruth Negga

Tom Hanks was really great [the 'Burbs']. The director, Joe Dante, was wonderful. We filmed it here during the summer, every day…

— Carrie Fisher

I know what its like to direct. You become a more considerate actor. After you have directed, you understand what is going…

— Dolph Lundgren

I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and…

— Carly Schroeder

I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are…

— Olivia Thirlby

There's a paraphrase about Orson Welles saying: "Great films are made by great directors and the rest are made by everyone else."…

— Colin Firth

I'm friends with [David] Fincher. [James] Cameron gives me advice. I know a fair amount of directors who have been through it,…

— Timothy Miller

The casting director on the movie made me aware of her. She told me what to watch Starter For Ten, which I…

— Nicole Holofcener

When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose…

— Anne Fontaine

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

— Richard Marquand

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct…

— Walter Hill

Hollywood's best producers and directors are in film, not TV.

— Tim Pigott-Smith

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

— Alexis Bledel

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

— Kevin Hart

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I do what the directors want me to do with all sincerity and devotion. And ultimately my sincerity pays.

— Navya Nair

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

— Gus Van Sant

'Ides of March' I did for scale - scale as a director, scale as an actor, scale as a writer.

— George Clooney

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

— Elia Kazan

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

— Nicholas Meyer

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

— Ryan Gosling

Choosing a Board of Directors based on race and gender is a lousy way to run a company.

— T. J. Rodgers

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

— Michelle MacLaren

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

— Tibor Fischer

A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent.

— Charlie Munger