Directors Quotes · Page 40

Id love to see more women working as directors and producers.

— Ida Lupino

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

— Ray Stevenson

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

— Elia Kazan

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

— Ed Helms

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

— Stanley Tucci

I was, in my day, one of the best directors of episodic TV around.

— David Hemmings

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

— Asia Argento

I always think it's a sign of a truly gifted director when they can move seamlessly between genres.

— Cillian Murphy

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can…

— Sergei Eisenstein

Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do…

— Thomas Langmann

I think it's easy for directors to stay fresh more than actors, especially once an actor becomes a star. It's hard for…

— Michael Mann

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

— Darren Lynn Bousman

If I have to wear a hat as a producer to do that, then I'm willing to do that. An actor's, producer's…

— Michael Eklund

The candidates at the Republican debate looked like a town council that was outlawing dancing. They looked like a board of directors…

— David Letterman

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether…

— Andre Holland

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion.

— Jake Gyllenhaal

[Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way.…

— Alden Ehrenreich

A lot of times there were big mistakes, but I would show the art director and he'd say, Yeah, let's go with…

— Deborah Turbeville

As first time director, though, you're like a new officer coming up to be in charge of very serious veterans, and you're…

— William Monahan

As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job…

— George Clooney

I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope…

— Amandla Stenberg

I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and…

— Eva Green

I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I…

— Roman Coppola

I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we…

— Cinco Paul

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

— Roger Ebert

Actors know how to talk to other actors in a way that sometimes other directors just don't.

— Grant Heslov

The very nature of cool is that you think about it too much and it becomes uncool.

— Don Johnson

The directors [who know every detail] make films that are complete, basically.

— Idris Elba

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

— Peter Brook

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

— Barry Sonnenfeld

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

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

I get to meet different directors and different people.

— Quvenzhane Wallis

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

— Adam McKay

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

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

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

The biggest thing I learned is directors don't make a lot of money on a movie.

— Shane Dawson

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

— Alan Cumming

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

— Hugh Jackman

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

— Catherine Deneuve

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

— Stanley Crouch