Directors Quotes · Page 7

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

— James Franco

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

— Charles S. Dutton

I don't go by brand names for directors.

— Anushka Shetty

Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.

— Gene Wilder

A lot of directors don't really like actors.

— Joe Wright

“turn over the reins to the board of directors.”

— Bryan Burrough

I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

— Shekhar Kapur

Any movie's only as good as the director.

— Woody Harrelson

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

— Scott Mechlowicz

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

— Rohit Saraf

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

— David Wenham

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

— Merton Miller

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

— Jack Kilby

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

— Guillaume Canet

One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it…

— Elia Kazan

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the…

— Michael Emerson

They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.

— Jacki Weaver

With Alien, because we always use a different director, each one kind of stands on its own. So I guess it's possible…

— Sigourney Weaver

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.

— Kelly Marcel

Even bigger directors like Mani Ratnam and Ram Gopal Varma have faced flak, that doesn't mean they've shied away from filmmaking.

— Gautham Menon

You have different people who come into your life and they affect you in a way and leave an impact on you.…

— Selena Gomez

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director…

— Amy Smart

I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an…

— William H. Macy

I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like…

— Francis Ford Coppola

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a…

— Vincent Canby

It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But…

— Jim Gaffigan

Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about…

— Elia Kazan

I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John…

— Francis Ford Coppola

My favorite thing in moviemaking is to shoot in chronological order if at all possible, because it just helps for continuity and…

— Zoe Bell

To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of…

— Edward Norton

It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a…

— Judd Nelson

Certainly, for a newspaper director, to have within arm's reach a Travaglio, about whom every starring actor, supporting cast and extra of…

— Indro Montanelli

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's…

— Christopher Hitchens

The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson…

— Wynton Marsalis

I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my…

— Stanley Druckenmiller

I knew that's where I was going. I knew we were going to Italy. You couldn't make this movie in America at…

— Bill Murray

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing…

— Kenneth Lonergan