Directors Quotes · Page 4

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

— Ben Kingsley

Some directors are like poets.

— Manisha Koirala

Love who and what you are and what you do.

— Louise Hay

Every director should take an acting class.

— Paul Feig

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

— Jamie Babbit

You either are a good director or you're not.

— Rebecca Hall

I think all directors should be animators...

— Steven Spielberg

“A CEO is a board of directors personified.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I will one day be thin, but Vincent Gallo will always be the director of The Brown Bunny.

— Roger Ebert

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

— Barry Sonnenfeld

I get to meet different directors and different people.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

The directors you want to work with are in the television world.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

In many cases for an actor it's a comfortable position to be in. But it's harder to fail as a director.

— Jean Dujardin

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

— Adam McKay

A film is the director's medium. The theater is an actor's.

— Hugh Jackman

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent.

— Tom Hooper

Back in the day when I was on The WB, I may have only had one or two female directors throughout the…

— Shiri Appleby

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call…

— Zubin Mehta

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.

— Jelly Roll Morton

I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I…

— Meryl Streep

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight…

— Michael Biehn

And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

— Anonymous

There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something…

— Amanda Seyfried

When I think about directing a film, the thing that stops me short is wondering if I'm a natural at it the…

— Edward Norton

When I got the script for Thelma & Louise, when I met with the director, Ridley Scott, I said, "I don't want…

— Susan Sarandon

I'd like [Santa Claus] to give Wes Anderson, the director, enough money in his next budget for an aerial shot - just…

— Bill Murray

As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut. And my own passion was that I wanted to be a film director.…

— Alfonso Cuaron

The hardest thing, as a producer, is to find a director who does the picture for all the right reasons, and not…

— Lorenzo di Bonaventura

I detest producing. I mean, I feel like I do it to enable myself to do all the other stuff that I…

— Julie Davis

Watching the news inspires me to keep going and reminds me why I should never complain. I'm inspired by those who don't…

— Robert Piper

But, yeah, it was just the regular audition process. There were a couple people telling me about it and that they were…

— Tinsel Korey

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated. And there's so much…

— Jason Bateman

You start out with big dreams and I mean, big dreams artistically. You want to work with the greatest living directors, make…

— Nicole Kidman

That's a very privileged attitude and I think the ignorance is so strong there. When people say, "Oh please, I don't want…

— Bethann Hardison

During the years I was on the board of directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City, the most…

— Warren Farrell

Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape…

— Edward Albee

I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave…

— Edward Snowden

“Directors tell me I should direct because the questions I am asking are the questions that they are asking rather than the…

— Christian Bale

The criteria [to take or refuse the role] is that I would love to have some kind of dialogue or communication with…

— Mads Mikkelsen