Directors Quotes · Page 78

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar…

— Zachary Quinto

He [Oliver Stone] is great. I really like working with directors who know what they want and aren't afraid to tell you,…

— Scott Eastwood

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is…

— Grant Heslov

Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say…

— Zubin Mehta

I've had the privilege to work with fantastic directors - Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Ratnam, Inder Kumar, to name a few.

— Vivek Oberoi

A lot of directors want to storyboard you, whereas the best way to get a performance out of an actor is a…

— Jacki Weaver

I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director…

— Patrik Sinkewitz

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to…

— Lena Dunham

I always felt, and still feel, one of my best strengths as a director is having been an actor for a long…

— Paul Feig

I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving…

— Julia Stiles

A lot of directors are great and they are fine but you know I think that Harry really takes a special point…

— Will Estes

I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed…

— Geena Davis

I'm not interested in the director's commentary stuff. I think that stuff is really boring. And, if the director explains too much,…

— Joseph M. Kahn

I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to…

— Damon Lindelof

You can't reinvent the wheel. I remember when we first started out at 'Late Night,' we were trying to hire directors, and…

— Jimmy Fallon

Recently I have been spending my lunch with other game directors playing over local connection battle in Spirit Tracks. It is very…

— Eiji Aonuma

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during…

— John Malkovich

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers,…

— Lynda Obst

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for…

— Cynthia Nixon

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

— Edward Albee

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

In acting, you have a writer, a director, a character - you're working through being another person - and the irony I…

— Juliette Lewis

I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I…

— Tatiana de Rosnay

I think the toughest thing about being an actor in a film is to be with a director who doesn't know what…

— Ricky Jay

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

— Taraji P. Henson

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director…

— Jane Haddam

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

— Channing Tatum

I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get…

— Michael Tolkin

Yeah, the actors really come in as lumps of clay. We're ready to work with the directors and find our way. These…

— Jason Graae

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the…

— Noah Baumbach

So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School…

— John David Washington

I've learnt so much from every film and every director - a new perspective, a greater appreciation of the art.

— Sally Menke

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right…

— Billy Bob Thornton

As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of…

— Timothy Miller

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very…

— Dennis Haysbert

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors,…

— Felicity Jones

You have to really be able to trust the director. It's about the filmmaker and whether or not I'm going to be…

— Cameron Diaz

I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them…

— Lee Daniels

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I…

— Dolph Lundgren

As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized…

— Jensen Ackles