Directors Quotes · Page 44

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult…

— Stephen Daldry

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down…

— Juno Temple

I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go…

— Ewan McGregor

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a…

— Stephen Daldry

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of…

— Hiro Murai

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems…

— Jonathan Frakes

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of…

— Stanley Tucci

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

— Robert De Niro

“One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This…

— Melissa Silverstein

As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

The more shows that are produced, the more writers are hired, producers are hired, actors are hired, directors are hired, it means…

— Kevin Spacey

I watched a lot of silent directors who were absolutely great like John Ford and Fritz Lang, Tod Browning, and also some…

— Michel Hazanavicius

I learned that you really don't have any control as a writer. Waah, waah, waah. Big deal. Unless you're the director on…

— Bret Easton Ellis

I do have a sense of fear every day going to work, but I think it's something that I like. I mean…

— Charlize Theron

I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and…

— Jeffrey Pierce

William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was.

— John Waters

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed,…

— Daniel Handler

If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's…

— Ti West

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over…

— A. A. Gill

I like being adventurous in my choice of roles. It may not be the prescribed way, but it is mine and I…

— Prateik Babbar

I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change…

— Howard Hawks

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point…

— Charles Roven

The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles.…

— Scott Speedman

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as…

— Trevor Nunn

The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.

— Malcolm McDowell

[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak.…

— John Hurt

What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that…

— Aaron Sorkin

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director…

— Jane Haddam

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what…

— Ricky Jay

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I…

— Juliette Lewis

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during…

— John Malkovich

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers,…

— Lynda Obst

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for…

— Cynthia Nixon

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

— Edward Albee