Director Quotes

1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel… — David Henry Hwang
Lighting is not about function. It's much more about the mood and the emotion that the playwright and the director are trying to create. Our… — Jules Fisher
As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally. — Roger Corman
As a director, you try to find what is creative. — Jan de Bont
I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out… — Jay Roach
Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror. — Unknown Author
Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work. — Alan Parker
Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them. — Robert Rodriguez
The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture.… — Roland Joffe
Every time I was cast in a role, the director put a gun in my hand, so I figured I’d better learn how to use… — Michael Rooker
For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking… — Berenice Bejo
A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should. — Frank Darabont
A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption.… — Mike Lofgren
This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you… — Robert Mitchum
The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet. — Francis Ford Coppola
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — Unknown Author
The director, Antoine Fuqua, relies on small details, which anchor the vigilante-as-saint myth in at least a minimal degree of reality. — David Denby
How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling… — Daniel Handler
My dad, who was creative director in the '60s, always wore black jeans with black desert boots; he thought he was cool. He told me… — Andy Spade
Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode. — Condola Rashad
Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one… — Joan Severance
I really think the mind of someone who hasn't been welded into place by their work or studios or actors or this whole society is… — Joan Severance
Clint Eastwood. Here's a guy who's been involved in so many movies, lots of them masterpieces, and now he's a director. I just like everything… — Bobby Farrelly
In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young people than in… — Clair Bee
But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is… — Neil Jordan

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