Director Quotes
1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors
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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
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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
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As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.
— Roger Corman
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As a director, you try to find what is creative.
— Jan de Bont
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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
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Being a [bank] director is like being a pilot of an aircraft - it's years of boredom and seconds of terror.
— Unknown Author
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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
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Ever director has at least 10 bad films in them.
— Robert Rodriguez
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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
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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
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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
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A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.
— Frank Darabont
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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
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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
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The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet.
— Francis Ford Coppola
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David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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Theater is a lot more interactive, more of a cohesive unit. With television, it can be a different director every episode.
— Condola Rashad
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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