Directors Quotes · Page 45

As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of…

— Timothy Miller

So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School…

— John David Washington

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

— Sally Menke

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These…

— Jason Graae

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the…

— Noah Baumbach

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

— Channing Tatum

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get…

— Michael Tolkin

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and…

— Tony Kushner

I like to be cast well and then I like to be left alone. And good directors, that's generally what they do…

— Christopher Walken

I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my…

— Persis Khambatta

I wish I could say I had some sort of master plan where one role leads to the next role, but a…

— Dermot Mulroney

I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of…

— James Caan

And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the…

— Jason Reitman

I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or…

— Jonathan Lethem

Ah," he said. "I had an . . . artistic disagreement with the director of the panto. As it happens, I take…

— Maureen Johnson

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar…

— Zachary Quinto

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you,…

— Scott Eastwood

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would…

— George Lindsey

I didn't have a lot of men to ask questions of when I was starting out. There were two female directors people…

— Susanna Fogel

As I continue through my acting career I tend to wish I were a little shorter and a few pounds lighter so…

— James Preston Rogers

I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill",…

— Walter Hill

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

— Ricky Gervais

I've had the privilege to work with fantastic directors - Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam, Inder Kumar, to name a few.

— Vivek Oberoi

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a…

— Jacki Weaver

I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to…

— Lena Dunham

Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say…

— Zubin Mehta

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is…

— Grant Heslov

[on editing of the films] There is always a question of time, and the director. I've worked with a lot of directors…

— Richard Gere

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All…

— John Kricfalusi

I think a good director can embrace any genre and it's the kind of thing where you always want to do something…

— David Ayer

The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really…

— Harry Lloyd

Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have…

— David Leitch

I guess once you've been acting for a long time, you glean the great bits of good directors and the bad bits…

— Luke Evans

Young directors are a delight to work with. With no preconceived notions, they provide enough creative fodder for actors.

— Delhi Ganesh

I love acting and I hope I'm fortunate enough to get good, interesting roles and I hope directors and producers will keep…

— Sophie Nelisse

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director,…

— Stephen Baldwin

We haven't seen a situation where you have the FBI director talk about an investigation side by side with the attorney general…

— Alberto Gonzales

"You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was…

— James Patterson