Directors Quotes · Page 41

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors

— Chow Yun-Fat

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

— Mamoru Oshii

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

— Frank Ocean

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

— Josh Radnor

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

— Michael Keaton

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

— Liz W. Garcia

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

— Malcolm McDowell

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

— Bill Mumy

Generally my focus has been on people who make things, whether it's writers or directors or painters or musicians.

— Anton Corbijn

I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky…

— Garry Marshall

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were…

— Noel Clarke

You see these actor/director relationships in the celebrity world and you understand why. The director knows which buttons to push and it…

— Michelle Glick

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

— Charles S. Dutton

You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that…

— Robert Altman

There's nothing worse than a director that keeps changing their mind. Because, unlike the directors I work with, I'm not decisive at…

— Cliff Martinez

There's a kind of unwritten rule: Don't say anything at all, and everything will be fine. It's a producer's medium. The directors…

— Robert Carlyle

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It's still making films, but it's a different job. When you're the director,…

— Brett Ratner

There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I…

— Ridley Scott

I'm happy that my films were discovered by chance by foreign film festivals. That makes me realise more that there is a…

— Takashi Miike

I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And…

— Steven Spielberg

Sometimes you don't need to explain how you care and love someone so much, but I really love him as a person…

— Marion Cotillard

Women think in [Douglas] Sirk’s films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

You're always looking to make it a bit fresh. I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested, and we're…

— Adrian Hodges

Now the Japanese companies are more focused on that. To have two independent directors - I think it's good to have outside…

— Jamie Dimon

I'd never worked with an actor-director before [Warren Beatty].

— Alden Ehrenreich

I have to be strong about my own tastes because I think that's what the director's job is.

— Andre Øvredal

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].

— Laura Vandervoort

Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.

— Monica Bellucci

I'm a control freak, so that's why I became a director.

— Kevin Munroe

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

— Joseph Kosinski

I'm always under the impression that directors should act at some point or another.

— Scott Mechlowicz

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

— Jack Kilby

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

— Merton Miller

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

— David Wenham

I've learnt on set with different directors I've worked with.

— Rohit Saraf

I think it's very boring for a director to always do the same kind of movies.

— Guillaume Canet

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

— Joan Littlewood

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

— Edward Tufte

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

— Anonymous

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn