Directors are like generals, political dictators, aggressive people...And everyone in the film is always grateful if you can tell them what to… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
You have to go through a big process with the Directors Guild in order to get co-direction credit. They sit you in… — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult… — Allison Jones Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is guilty, of all the things that Director [James] Comey stated at his press conference and Congressional hearings, and far… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles.… — Scott Speedman Copy Share Image
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
I guarantee you that two directors that are any good can take the same story, change the name of the characters, change… — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
I have an association that director means total authority. Director means they will never let you down. Director means just trust them… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
I'm always in awe of directors because they're just holding so much stuff in the air. They've got so many decisions that… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into… — Lanford Wilson Copy Share Image
And as a first time director I needed to work with someone that I felt comfortable with, and that I could get… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
I like being adventurous in my choice of roles. It may not be the prescribed way, but it is mine and I… — Prateik Babbar Copy Share Image
[Alfred] Hitchcock was very interested in the image on the screen.As is any good cinema director. That is the language they speak.… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work… — Thiagarajan Kumararaja Copy Share Image
The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever. — Malcolm McDowell Copy Share Image
The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
I have worked with a lot of great directors but my favorites are all entirely different from one another. They don't go… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
If you ever see the director pulling people aside, that means something's not working. Because you're trying to figure out why it's… — Ti West Copy Share Image
My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of… — Stanley Tucci Copy Share Image
William Castle and Alfred Hitchcock were the first director-personalities. Before then, nobody in America knew what a director was. — John Waters Copy Share Image
The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing. — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems… — Jonathan Frakes Copy Share Image
I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would… — George Lindsey Copy Share Image