Directors Quotes · Page 55

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors,…

— Charlotte Rampling

I feel that more women should turn directors as they are more sensitive and emotional than men - that's a crucial factor…

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And…

— Ben Kingsley

It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible.

— Janusz Kaminski

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding…

— Benjamin Avila

I was lucky that I could work with directors like Kamal, Lal Jose and Sibi Malayil. They understood music and gave me…

— Vidyasagar

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be…

— Orson Welles

David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate,…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American…

— Manny Farber

I will say that I'm going to take full credit for this. I knew Josh [Hutcherson] was going to be a star.…

— Joseph M. Kahn

The best directors I've worked with, they all have the same thing in common. They're the first to say, 'I don't know.'…

— Ryan Reynolds

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood…

— Stellan Skarsgard

Most of the books that I've adapted I'm doing because I love the book and I feel like it's a great work…

— James Franco

It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they…

— William Mapother

Increasingly, there's much better material on television, but there's not always the time and money to make it, so you've got to…

— Cary Fukunaga

'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this…

— Seth Shostak

I have so much respect for television actors and directors. We're on set doing 16-hour days, and that's just what we do.

— Michelle Borth

There's very few directors that know what that rehearsal's for. And often it's just about calming down the director. If he could…

— Ewan McGregor

As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you…

— Nicholas Meyer

I've worked with acting coaches, I've been going out on auditions and meeting with casting directors. But I'm not known as an…

— Cassie Ventura

I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a…

— Josh Lucas

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an…

— Antonio Banderas

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely…

— Summer Glau

If I have freedom to experiment with a scene, then I try my best to do that. With TV and with the…

— Dominique McElligott

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors…

— Peter Mullan

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are…

— Nathalie Emmanuel

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the…

— Paul Watson

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me…

— Marilyn Monroe

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

— Luke Evans

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh.…

— Ken Jeong

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised…

— Wim Wenders

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read…

— George Cukor

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors…

— Catherine Keener

I'm interested in good collaborations and in working with directors who bring something new and interesting out of you.

— Howard Shore

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale…

— Michael Apted

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll…

— Takashi Miike

As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place…

— David Brooks

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than…

— David Lean

I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if…

— Takeshi Kitano

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to…

— Preston Sturges