Director Quotes

1304 Director quotes by 970 unique authors

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a… — Lenny Kravitz
I majored in Chinese Studies. I'm probably the only director of chicken Indian zombie movies who can speak pretty good Mandarin. — Lloyd Kaufman
I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word. — Shahrukh Khan
Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision.… — Owen Gleiberman
When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us… — C. Vivian Stringer
Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as… — Ingmar Bergman
I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody… — Paul Stanley
Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it… — Sue Naegle
It's so hard to find a director who, when you look at their body of work, you like everything. — Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing… — Grant Heslov
The struggle of making a film for any studio is the fact that the producers and the studio have an idea of what the movie… — Joseph E. Johnston
When I was nine years old I use to copy ( not trace ) the covers of the Donald Duck comics. Many years later I… — William Jackson
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off… — Charles Kimbrough
The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and… — Jeffrey Pierce
Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if… — Cynthia Nixon
There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it. — Aaron Taylor-Johnson
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good. — Andrew Lau
Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without… — Thomas Langmann
I like to invest as a performer in the director's vision and then bring a sense of reality to whatever I'm doing, whether it's comedy… — Amy Seimetz
By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more… — Maynard Webb
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to… — Stephen Daldry
Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a… — Stephen Daldry
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 theatre director that… — Stephen Daldry
I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this… — Stephen Daldry
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision?… — Lukas Haas

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