Directors Quotes · Page 74

For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because…

— Berenice Bejo

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your…

— John Ratzenberger

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year…

— Jim Dale

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

— Julianne Moore

I'd love to direct, and I think I'd be a great director, but... I've been approved by the studio to direct, which…

— Paul Reubens

I think it's worse for actors, though, because people have to choose you. As a director, I get to choose the actors,…

— Terry Gilliam

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who…

— Charlie Kaufman

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular…

— Clark Gregg

In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was…

— Becki Newton

John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but…

— Theodore Bikel

You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it's not really…

— Adrian Hodges

It's dangerous for one actor to advise another one, especially when you're not in charge. On the set, I'm never gonna tell…

— David Koechner

Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who…

— Carice van Houten

One of my first jobs was in a soap opera, five days a week. And what I found is, although there are…

— Idris Elba

I'm not very self aware about my career. I probably should be more so. Just to be brutally honest, it's not like…

— David Arquette

Playing Japanese characters and being in environments that are Japanese, like a character's apartment or whatever, if you have directors or art…

— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

— Janusz Kaminski

It's hard to be reverent today when directors make films that are not as good. There will be time later, though, when…

— Robert Osborne

Working with actors really depends on the actor. Most of the directors I've worked with don't really know how to speak to…

— Martin Donovan

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works…

— Anonymous

I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a…

— Paul Newman

But I'm very keen to work with directors such as Imtiaz Ali, Zoya Akhtar, Farhan Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Abhishek Chaubey, Anurag Kashyap…

— Neeraj Kabi

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable.…

— Tippi Hedren

It's funny, I worked with a lot of directors in the many years that I've been doing this, and generally when you…

— Gregory Nicotero

As a director I always look at someone's eyes. How truthful are they? Will this person take me on this journey?

— Ruba Nadda

I think soon after I became director of the CIA - President Obama pulled me into the Oval Office and said: 'Look,…

— Leon Panetta

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world.…

— Jane Campion

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers…

— John Carpenter

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a…

— Guy Garvey

Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that…

— Peter Jackson

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids…

— Steven Spielberg

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check…

— Lynn Shelton

I have acted in more than 100 films so far. And I have worked with almost all top stars and leading directors.

— Karunas

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at…

— Griffin Dunne

To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment…would result in…

— Karl Polanyi

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are…

— Mike Birbiglia

I think that the process of trying to become somebody else, and obviously the director/actor relationship in trying to do that, is…

— Rupert Friend

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't…

— Aaron Brookner

The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line,…

— Pedro Almodovar

Michael's Powell art director was a painter and they had a wonderful friendship and artistic understanding. Michael himself, in the way he…

— Thelma Schoonmaker