Directors Quotes · Page 48

Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I…

— Bobby Farrelly

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in…

— Pedro Almodovar

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of…

— Catherine Deneuve

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

— Jeff Bridges

I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as…

— David Duchovny

I was a VP of marketing, I was regional sales manager in fashion, and marketing director in communications and product development. I…

— Patti Stanger

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.

— Donald Pleasence

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with…

— Roman Coppola

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such…

— Franka Potente

At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were…

— Pauline Kael

I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or…

— Amy Adams

What I try to do is make sure that the directors I'm working with are on the same page and want to…

— George Clooney

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews,…

— Kate O'Mara

You could name the great stars of the silent screen who were finished; the great directors gone; the great title writers who…

— Ernst Lubitsch

I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really…

— Charlie Kaufman

But then foreign critics right away made sweeping comparisons to haiku, noh theater, and directors like Ozu, as if the movie were…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the…

— Sylvia Kristel

ADMIRABLY BOLD. There's something grand about the film's sincerity and the intensity of its emotions and something fresh and bold about the…

— A. O. Scott

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would…

— Peter Mullan

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or…

— Martin Freeman

Wow. Ted Cruz falsely suggested Marco Rubio mocked the bible and was just forced to fire his communications director. More dirty tricks.

— Donald Trump

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and…

— Leroy Chiao

Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound…

— Giorgio Armani

It's a dumb question, because I don't look at things as a black director, just as a director, so ask me as…

— Antoine Fuqua

Your ideas dry up sometimes, and you get lazy sometimes 'cause you're around the same people. That was the good thing about…

— Robert Pattinson

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of…

— George Lucas

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what …" And I'd say, "I know. I read…

— Clint Eastwood

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes…

— Jean Dujardin

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be…

— Sean Penn

Atanu is one of my favourite directors. His script, style of storytelling and characterisation are always very different.

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

— Jackie Chan

With film, so much is in the director's hands. Once something is cut together - unless you're in the editing room -…

— Julia Stiles

I think every job you have to lie to get. You always say how wonderful it all is, that it's an amazing…

— Travis Fimmel

At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at,…

— Danny Huston

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I…

— Alan Thicke

[Fifty Shades Darker director] James Foley directed Fear. And that's what I love about this film, because it has a real sexy…

— Bella Heathcote

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I trust my directors to see me through, for I don't consider myself as a natural actor - or a good one…

— Fahadh Faasil

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.

— Judd Nelson

I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to…

— Jon Lovitz