Directors Quotes · Page 8

People have forgotten how to tell a story.

— Steven Spielberg

My husband's a director, so he understands what I do.

— Sasha Alexander

Two directors always come with two thought processes.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

— Iain Glen

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

— Dakin Matthews

I have worked with some great directors.

— Dabney Coleman

I had no plans to be a director.

— Mike Figgis

When you're the director, you kinda do all the work.

— Brett Ratner

If you look at the types of directors out there, I'm not as weird as most of them.

— Anonymous

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

— Joan Littlewood

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

— Edward Tufte

Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays.

— Thomas Harrison

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

— Anthony Michael Hall

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

— Jane Campion

With RoboCop, I couldn't be happier because it's such a quality director.José Padilha is a young master.

— Joel Kinnaman

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

— Sean Penn

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to…

— Cameron Crowe

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete Jackson has got, what a lot of the directors I…

— Saoirse Ronan

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's…

— Sigourney Weaver

I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager.…

— Maddie Hasson

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is…

— Brad Dourif

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies…

— Jean-Luc Godard

Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes…

— Penelope Spheeris

Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never…

— Dan Gilroy

So you know when you were work on Man of Steel, in 10 years somebody is going to do the music for…

— Zack Snyder

I worked on three independent movies in close succession and I really learned from those directors how to stay on budget, make…

— Michael Urie

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but…

— Tommy Wiseau

There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating…

— Peter Stone

As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the…

— David Slade

It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived…

— Helmut Newton

What the computer can do in art and design has turned aesthetics on its head... with the computer, things are not so…

— Nicholas von Hoffman

I love when a director shows up with a lot of energy, and different ideas about how to change things and do…

— Bailey Chase

While the storytelling in games is getting so much better, you look at something like Grand Theft Auto V, which I thought…

— David Hayter

It has taken biologists some 230 years to identify and describe three quarters of a million insects; if there are indeed at…

— Richard Leakey

I feel like I've been very lucky with the directors. The characters I've been offered, especially lately, have given me the opportunity…

— Penelope Cruz

The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people;…

— Paul Theroux

I remember in the Carpenter version, you got acquainted with the characters and really knew them. It was a real character piece.…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in…

— Daniel Radcliffe

When you shoot a film, when it was film, there used to be rushes and normally a director would look at them…

— Donald Sutherland

Director Michelle MacLaren is the John Cage of this malevolent silence, able to wield it as precisely as a pointillist with a…

— Andy Greenwald